"The Reformation: Then and Now!" Lecture Posted

The lecture from our Friday Night Academy course has been posted.  It is entitled, "The Reformation:  Then and Now!" You can find it here:

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Comments

[lee n. field]

Good stuff.

BTW, I've been pushing various people I have contact with to listen to the WHI episode from a couple weeks ago, "Faith and the Gospel", which addresses the same issues. Among other things, I'd like to try to get some discussion going in my "mutt evangelical" congregation.

Illustrative of the evangelical gospel problem, a month or so ago, Todd Friel of Way of the Master radio went to a Baptist college and did what Shane Rosenthal does for you guys -- stuck a microphone (gently) in people's faces and asked basic questions. Those kids could not compose one coherent sentence in response to basic questions about the faith. Painful to listen to, and honestly, it was like youth Sunday at our church.

Yes, I think we have a problem.

[Andrew Alvarez]

I listened to your lecture and enjoyed it greatly. I do have a very basic question that I didn't have answered. I agree that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone but how then does one become a Christian? Is it simply at the moment that person believes it to be true? What event exactly marks the end of the unregenerate and the regenerate? I get that "praying a prayer to receive Jesus" is essentially a work so how then does a person become saved?

[Paul]

I also have a question. How were those people saved during the time before the Reformation. If the Gospel was "re-discovered" at the time of the Reformation, and bibles weren't accessible to the common man, and a false Gospel was being preached by Rome, how did they here salvation by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone? This is a question I get asked all the time and I always wrestle with it.

Thanks

Sole Deo Gloria

[Charlie]

Paul and Andrew: First of all, after one is "smitten by the law" and learns of his/her sin and misery, the question arises, "How can I find relief?" The answer, of course, is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, whose obedience to the is our obedience, and whose death is our deliverance from condemnation.

We benefit from that by faith, which is nothing more than to trust in, rest in, His obedience in your place. There is, for Christians, great comfort in the Sacraments; Baptism sealing to us of Divine grace, and the Sacrament of Holy Communion, assuring us of being part of "the company of all faithful people.

What is this to say but integration in a true visible Church can provide further Biblical answers to these questions. Charlie