Our Religious Heritage

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Our Religious Heritage
This will be a different kind of Study

• Not a Study of a book in the Bible (Acts)
• Not a Study of a Bible Topic (Prophets)
• Instead, this is a Study of Church History
• Prophecies of the N.T. Church
• Establishment of the N.T. Church
• An Extensive Apostasy
• The rise of Roman Catholicism
• The emergence of Protestantism

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Our Religious Heritage
This will be a different kind of Study

• Not a Study of a book in the Bible (Acts)
• Not a Study of a Bible Topic (Prophets)
• Instead, this is a Study of Church History

• Efforts to Return to the N.T. Pattern
• A Pledge that gave Birth to a Movement Let us
  Speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where
  the Bible is Silent.
• Come to know some men of the Movement

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Our Religious Heritage
This will be a different kind of Study

• Not a Study of a book in the Bible (Acts)
• Not a Study of a Bible Topic (Prophets)
• Instead, this is a Study of Church History

• See Problems that arose among those seeking to
  Restore N.T. Christianity
• First major division involved worship

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Our Religious Heritage
Why The Need for Such a Study?

• Deficiency on part of many in understanding the
  First Century Church in the Twenty-First Century
• How Local churches of Christ came to life and
  exist in places such as Danville, Indiana
• To Expose the Falsehood that the church of Christ
  is a man-made church that came into existence
  during the Restoration Movement
• Because of the efforts of some to bring together
  the church of Christ Denominationalism

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Our Religious Heritage
Attacks upon the N.T. Pattern

• Our worship doesnt make sense to people, its
  weird Adapt to modern trends contemporary
• We simply are not connecting with people today
  Little less talk and a little more action
• We need more effective communication
  strategies Gospel meetings dont do the job
• We need to make the church more relevant for
  today Minister to the whole man not just
  spirit
• We need to appear less judgmental and more
  loving Never call names or expose error
• This Black and White mentality is a turn-off
  Book, Chapter and Verse is eliminated

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Our Religious Heritage
Buzz Words
Our Movement
Brings together churches of Christ with other
religious movements (Baptist movement, Mormon
movement, et al.).
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Our Religious Heritage
Buzz Words
Our Tradition
This strongly suggests that all we believe and
practice are merely traditions, no better or
worse than other religious traditions.
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Our Religious Heritage
Buzz Words
Our Church
Such as our church believes it is wrong to use
instruments of music in worship.
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Our Religious Heritage
Buzz Words
Restoration Hermeneutics
Command, example and necessary inference came
into existence during the Restoration Movement.
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Our Religious Heritage
Buzz Words
Restoration Movement Churches
Links together into one family all churches of
Christ, Independent Christian Churches and the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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Our Religious Heritage
Things you can do to Enhance this Study

• Organize all material in a folder and keep for
  future references.

• Read and prepare your lessons do not just rely
  on what you hear in class.

• Be at every class (Wednesdays and Sundays)
  because lessons are sequential .

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Our Religious Heritage
Questions

• By consulting a dictionary define REFORMATION and
  RESTORATION?

The act of reforming. a To put or change into an
improved form or condition b to amend or improve
by change of form or removal of faults or abuses.
An act of restoring or the condition of being
restored a A bringing back to a former
position or condition.
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Our Religious Heritage
Questions

• Read the following Bible passages and tell what
  Nehemiah wished to do (reform or restore) Neh
  18-9 Neh 81-18?

A Restoration The people only restored what had
been abandoned Neh 818 And they kept the
feast seven days and on the eighth day there was
a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed
manner.
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Our Religious Heritage
Questions

• THINK In the Nehemiah passages three things were
  foundational before restoration can occur.
  Concentrate on these passages and tell what you
  think these three things are

• Departed from the Word (Neh 18-9).
• Consulted the Word (Neh 81-8).
• Restored the original practice (Neh 818).

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