Season 2 Review + Question & Response - Church Then & Now E19

For the final episode of Season 2, Matthew & Ethan review this season by touching on the many different time periods they discussed throughout the past 18 episodes. Then, they finish this season off with a question & response segment. Join the conversation!

Show Notes: 

• Intro
• Shoutout to Michael
• Reviewing Season 2
  • The inception of the Church
  • Early Church
    • Doctrine, Scripture, & Canonization
    • False teachings & Gnosticism
    • The enemy’s strategy changes
  • The Roman Catholic Church
    • Mmelting pot of other beliefs masked as “Christianity”
    • The start of the State church
    • What was the true church doing?
    • Centralization of scripture
  • The Dark Ages
    • The OG Protestants
      • The many unnamed and unrecognized people who protested the Roman Catholic Church before the Protestant reformation are about
  • Protestant Reformation
    • Key invention: Printing press
    • Key person: Martin Luther
    • Decentralization of Scripture
    • Theology & doctrine was reformed
    • Denominations arise
    • John Calvin & Jakobus Ariminius
  • The Age of Reason & Revival
    • Decentralization of information leads to individualism
    • The Great Awakenings (there are 2)
  • Present Day Church (1900’s-today)
    • Billy Graham
    • Civil Rights Movement
    • Jesus Movement
  • Complacency (American) vs Persecution (Global)
  • Bottom line:
    • There is a difference between the visible and invisible church.
    • There is a difference between the historical church and the biblical church.
  • How do you close the gap between the two?
    • Spend time with Jesus
    • Study His Word
    • Know the truth so you can spot the lies.
  • How can we apply what we learned this season to our daily lives? And how can we guard against complacency?
    • Know your (spiritual) family tree. Know what family that you’ve been grafted into.
• Question & Response:
  • Joanne asks:
    • I had both of my children baptized in the Roman Catholic church as babies.  Knowing what I now know about the Roman Catholic church should I get them baptized again?
    • Another question not pertaining to this season of the podcast....Was John the Baptist Elijah? He said he was not in John but Jesus seemed to say he was?
  • PJ asks:
    • In the end of the introduction you address speaking in tongues and the biblical reason of why the Lord allowed that to happen. First of all, I say that I completely agree with you guys on this view, but my question is why do individuals claim to speak in tongues?
• We’re taking a brief undetermined break until season 3!
  • In the meantime, share this podcast.

Resources:

• If His Name Was Yeshua, Why Do We Call Him Jesus? https://www.gotquestions.org/Yeshua-Jesus.html
• Was John The Baptist Really Elijah Reincarnated? https://www.gotquestions.org/John-Baptist-Elijah.html
• What's Up With Tongues? https://www.gotquestions.org/speak-in-tongues-saved.html

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