Sermon Tone Analysis

The Reformation

Christ came to defeat the devil, sin and death!

Darkness has been defeated Christ will return for his bride in triumph!

The church has always struggled in one way or another, there have been times of refreshing and growth, and there have been times of trouble!

God is not restoring His church to the primitive version of the church He is preparing her for eternal life with Him!

The revelation of Jesus is the cornerstone of the Church!

This is the pillar on which we stand today!

The purpose of of Christ is to restore us back to God so we can become one with Christ and with one another!

Anything that gets in between us and God will be removed!

The reformation is one example of this.

in 1517 Martin Luther wrote 95 theses and nailed them to the church doors

started the largest religious split ever recorded thousands broke off the Roman Catholic Church

Martin was born to a wealthy family and studied to become lawyer.

One July day a violent thunderstorm knocked him to the ground and he yelled!

Save me St Anne… and I will become a monk! and so he did!

Luther was driven by a terrible fear of God’s judgment.

God was his judge… not saviour!

Luther read his bible fervently and changed the world forever...

He read in Romans that salvation was by grace not works.

That it couldn’t be bought by indulgences!

Romans 3:22-

One individual close to where Martin lived a Dominican monk named Johann Tetzel

Dominican monk named Johann Tetzel

Eckman, would sell indulgences and say:

“As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.”

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This enraged Luther and lead him to write the 95 theses against indulgences and would initiate one of the largest reformations in the Church!

Luther realized that the key to salvation was not to fear God or be enslaved by religious dogma but to believe that faith alone would bring salvation.

How Luther reformed the Church!

Luther used songs to teach theology, He wrote songs like “ A mighty Fortress is our God” and “ Away in a manger”

The major contributions made by Luther were:

Revelation 22:17

Questioning authority of the church about their teachings

Salvation by Faith

The Bible is for all to read and interpret

He translated the New Testament into German

Since the reformation started many other major events have shaped the church today!

in the 1500’s with Zwingly the Anabaptist started baptizing people again!

The Great awakening’s - (1730-1800) Europe and US

John and Charles Wesley - (founded the methodist church)

Jonathan Edwards - Sinners in the hands of an angry God

George Whitefield - Spoke with great passion and fervor!

The Great Awakening pulled away from ritual, ceremony, sacramentalism, and hierarchy, and made Christianity intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.

It reflected Romanticism characterized by enthusiasm, emotion, and an appeal to the super-natural.

It rejected the skepticism, deism, and rationalism left over from the Enlightenment

The Second Great awakening - (1790)

Pentecostalism - (1900)

The 3 Waves -

Similar to the first -

1st wave - In 1901 at Bethel Bible College, Topeka, Kansas Agna Ozman - Holiness movement - then the 1906 Azusa street Revival which many believe to be the birth of modern Pentecostalism - (Assemblies of God)

Many consider the 1906 Azusa Street Revival as the birth of modern Pentecostalism

The largest church in the world is a Pentecostal church in Korea: the Yoido Full Gospel Church pastored by David Yongii Cho.

240,000 attend weekly worship.

Two Pentecostal churches in Buenos Aires attract together 150,000 each week.

Revelation

2nd Wave - The New Charismatic movement started in 1960 in Van Nuys California - started in an Episcopalian Church hundreds were getting baptized in the Holy Spirit!

A newspaper article published in 1977 (AP), reported that there were 10 million charismatics in America

3rd Wave - (1980) This movement is also called the Signs and Wonders Movement and the Vineyard Movement.

It has been a rapidly growing movement, drawing adherents from both charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

The movement stresses "power evangelism" whereby the gospel is explained and demonstrated by way of supernatural signs and wonders.

The largest church in the world is a Pentecostal church in Korea: the Yoido Full Gospel Church pastored by David Yongii Cho.

240,000 attend weekly worship.

Two Pentecostal churches in Buenos Aires attract together 150,000 each week.

The largest church in the world is a Pentecostal church in Korea: the Yoido Full Gospel Church pastored by David Yongii Cho.

240,000 attend weekly worship.

Two Pentecostal churches in Buenos Aires attract together 150,000 each week.

The largest church in the world is a Pentecostal church in Korea: the Yoido Full Gospel Church pastored by David Yongii Cho.

240,000 attend weekly worship.

Two Pentecostal churches in Buenos Aires attract together 150,000 each week.

Pentecostalism has become the fastest growing family of world Christianity.

It is growing at a rate of 13 million a year, or 35,000 a day.

With nearly a half billion adherents, it is, after Roman Catholicism, the largest Christian tradition.

Revelation 22:16