Your thoughtful, objective, and well-researched videos on Church history have done more to draw positive attention to Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary than any promotional campaign could ever hope to accomplish. Thank you for sharing them all with the public and not just seminarians. It is a great pleasure to learn from easy one of them.
Very interesting! For those who understand German I also recommend Worthaus lectures. But Ryan Reeves covers more historical and theological ground than his german counterparts and is clearer and more biblical.
Colton Brewer There are certainly a lot of parallels. But then Baptist history flows directly out of the English Puritan movement (with other factors, of course) and so it would make sense if they retain elements that are similar. There's also only so many ways to arrange a multi-church system if you do not have a bishop uniting a region under his jurisdiction. The default for many Protestants who are neither episcopal nor congregational is to have a structure of individual church leadership that brings the pastors together for regular meetings. Pull the lens back far enough and they all look the same.
There is no Biblical Support for this idea of The Church as a "mixed group" because there room in The New Testament for the even hypothetically possibly of a professing Christians who isn't truly a Christian. 1 Corinthians 12:3. "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no human speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no human can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit." 1 John 4:15. "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."
Your thoughtful, objective, and well-researched videos on Church history have done more to draw positive attention to Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary than any promotional campaign could ever hope to accomplish. Thank you for sharing them all with the public and not just seminarians. It is a great pleasure to learn from easy one of them.
I really appreciate Professor Reeves lectures.
Very interesting! For those who understand German I also recommend Worthaus lectures. But Ryan Reeves covers more historical and theological ground than his german counterparts and is clearer and more biblical.
Jónatas Machado Thank you for the resource.
Interesting. The Company of Pastors seems similar to the Association system employed in the SBC.
Colton Brewer There are certainly a lot of parallels. But then Baptist history flows directly out of the English Puritan movement (with other factors, of course) and so it would make sense if they retain elements that are similar. There's also only so many ways to arrange a multi-church system if you do not have a bishop uniting a region under his jurisdiction.
The default for many Protestants who are neither episcopal nor congregational is to have a structure of individual church leadership that brings the pastors together for regular meetings. Pull the lens back far enough and they all look the same.
Magisterial and Reformation is a bit like Military Intelligence, two words that don't go together.
There is no Biblical Support for this idea of The Church as a "mixed group" because there room in The New Testament for the even hypothetically possibly of a professing Christians who isn't truly a Christian.
1 Corinthians 12:3.
"Wherefore I give you to understand, that no human speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no human can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit."
1 John 4:15.
"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."