Rediscovering Faith: Lessons from the Reformation

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1. "So just queue up the picture here. Each time we visited Europe, we've been really struck by God. We've been struck by just the depth of the history, the richness of the history, mostly Christian history or church history throughout Europe. So here is St. John's Church in Mainz, Germany, where I did some theological studies. And this is actually a real church that people are actively meeting in from Sunday to Sunday." [28:27] (34 seconds) ( | | )

2. "So As people who are continuing to meet in the succession of history. Granville Chapel, we're celebrating our 75th anniversary this coming year. But imagine a church 1,200 years old, right? Imagine if this church were still here 1,200 years later and they're excavating and they're finding things in the font or something like that. There's just this richness of history and heritage. The awareness of the past." [30:44] (30 seconds) ( | | )

3. "So what can we learn from this period in history, these 500, 700 years that have just kind of blown through? The primary thing, I think, is the power of the word of God. As I mentioned, part of what was going on at the time was this renaissance, this wanting to go back to the sources, wanting to go back to the classical world. And part of this was wanting to rediscover the beginnings of the Bible or the New Testament." [52:52] (31 seconds) ( | | )

4. "So I'll just leave you with those three applications. One is make space for the Word of God in your life. Two is when you hear that message, be obedient. Be obedient. And three is when it's hard, take courage. Take courage. Keep on walking the walk of discipleship." [01:03:47] (26 seconds) ( | | )

5. "So we practice what we call an open table in which people are welcome to come, all believers and those who want to come to Jesus are welcome to come and take the bread and the blood of Jesus. If this is your first time receiving of the blood and of the body of Jesus in faith, then we ask that you would tell somebody. Maybe share with one of our staff members or share with one of the persons that you're familiar with." [01:08:04] (28 seconds) ( | | )

### Quotes for members

1. "So here's our outline for today. I want to begin with a real quick review of medieval history. And I mean real quick. So it's going to feel like a sprint through it, right? Like last week, Jason really took us through. And it was more like an Iron Man triathlon type of a thing, which we were able to kind of go through all of those thousand years. I'm just going to sprint right through it. And we're going to review some of that just to set the context for today as we talk about Reformation and Luther and the Reformation." [31:39] (34 seconds) ( | | )

2. "So Martin Luther, Martin Luther was born to a humble family. He and his five siblings, three brothers, two sisters, were the children of a father. And he died fast. Go to your mother and see if you can find your father, the one who died. And then he was born again, Martin Luther, who was working class, copper miner. But Luther was sent to study law. So this is outside of his regular family industry. And he finishes his bachelor's in three semesters and he goes on to do his masters. He finishes that. He achieves second in his class. So it's this bright career of law in front of him." [43:48] (40 seconds) ( | | )

3. "So he nailed these 95 theses to that castle wall in Wittenberg, wanting to dispute or wanting to discuss and debate these things with the clergy and the professors at Wittenberg. But what happens is that, as I mentioned, actually these theses are not discussed, but what happens is this process that eventually leads to this trial at Wittenberg. So Wittenberg's trial warring against the clergy begins through this sc verdade." [49:54] (36 seconds) ( | | )

4. "So these are pictures, again, that we took while we were in Germany. This is in Worms, the town of Worms. And I mean, it's commemorative. It's all about Luther, that town now. They remember him as larger than life. He was more than just a spiritual and religious reformer. He was really a cultural icon for all of Germany. And so there's that statue of him. It's huge in the center of the city. And there's Luther on top, and then the other reformers around him sitting down." [01:00:56] (29 seconds) ( | | )

5. "So I don't know what it is that God may be speaking to you in your life, but it may not be easy to do. It may take courage to do. It might not be the kind of life and death situation that Luther was faced with, but we all have the things that we face in our own lives, things that are difficult, that are challenging. Discipleship is challenging. Following Jesus is challenging. It might make you look bad in front of others. You might have to take a pay cut for this. There might be some kind of sacrifice for an obedience to the Lord Jesus." [01:02:24] (40 seconds) ( | | )

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