Author: John W. V. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871621887
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A Brief History of the Church of God Reformation Movement
Author: John W. V. SmithPublisher: Reformation Pub
ISBN: 9781933304519
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
First Century
Author: Barry L. CallenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871622006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"'Beginnings' traces the unusual historical roots of the Church of God reformation movement. Here we see the work of the early pioneers and brief accounts of the way that their ministry was accomplished through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Several pages of photographs - plus many quotations and articles - capture the full meaning of each phase of ministry, including the establishment of various church agencies and how their work was coordinated from the beginning." - back cover.
A Brief History of the Church of God Reformation Movement
Author: John W. V. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871621887
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
When the Trumpet Sounded
Author: Charles Ewing BrownThe Quest for Holiness & Unity
Author: John W. V. SmithPublisher: Warner Press
ISBN: 9781593173739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
God's Hundred Years
Author: Hubert J. SmithPublisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A clear and concise story of the Reformation, this comprehensive history focuses on the biographies and beliefs of the main protagonists, including John Wycliff and John Calvin. Smith also examines how the Protestant movement in the British Isles affected worship and belief, as well as the political implications of Protestantism.
Truth Marches on
Author: John W. V. SmithThe Church that God Intends
Author: Barry L. CallenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979793578
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Church of God movement (Anderson) came into being in 1880 through the inspired ministries of many people, particularly Daniel S. Warner (1842-1895). A keynote of this reform movement has been a deep concern about the status of God's church in this troubled world. To this movement's pioneers, the church had deteriorated over the centuries into a welter of divisive denominations reflecting much more human arrogance and compromise than the holy, united character of the church that God intends.This volume is a collection of essays whose authors attempt to revisit, refine, and renew the heart of the reforming heritage of the Church of God movement.
Birth of a Reformation
Author: Andrew ByersPublisher: FAITH PUBLISHING HOUSE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The life and labors of D. S. Warner are so closely associated with a religious movement that any attempt at his biography becomes in part necessarily a history of that movement. I have therefore chosen the term, Birth of a Reformation, as a part of the title of this book. Brother Warner (to use an appellation in keeping with the idea of universal Christian brotherhood) was doubtless chosen of God as an instrument for accomplishing a particular work. What that work was, why it may be called a reformation, and why, in particular, it may be considered the last reformation, a few words of explanation by way of introduction are offered the inquiring reader. It will be necessary to take a brief glance over the Christian era and review some of the important events and conditions. We note the characteristics of the church in the days of the apostles, which, by reason of its recent founding and organization by the Holy Spirit, is naturally regarded as exemplary and ideal. It had no creed but the Scriptures and no government but that administered by the Holy Spirit, who 'set the members in the body as it pleased him'—apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, etc. Thus subject to the Spirit, the early church was flexible, capable of expansion and of walking in all the truth and of adjusting itself to all conditions. It was in very essence the church, the whole, and not a section or part. The apostles and early believers did not restrict themselves and become a Jewish Christian sect or any other kind of sect. Peter's way of thinking would have thus limited him, for as a Jew he declined any particular interest in Gentile converts; but the Lord through a vision changed his mind and advanced his understanding to include the universality of the Christian kingdom. The Holy Spirit in the heart was necessary, of course, to the successful government of the church by the Spirit, otherwise he could not have been understood. There were no dividing lines, for it was the will of the Lord particularly that there be "one fold and one shepherd." Jesus had prayed in behalf of the disciples "that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me". These conditions of being subject to the word and Spirit, of leaving an open door through which greater light and truth might enter as was necessary, and of possessing the love and unity of spirit that cemented the believers together and carried them through all their persecution, constituted the ideal and normal status of God's church on earth as he gave it beginning, of which it was ordained that there should be but one, only one, as long as the world should endure. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling".
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