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The Lords ChurchThrough the Ages

• Part 5
• The Restoration Period

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The Lords Church Through the AgesWhere Are We?
The New Testament Church Post-Apostolic Period Medieval Period Reformation Period Restoration Period The Lords Church Today
A.D. 33 - 100 100 - 600 600 - 1300 1300 - 1700 1700 - 1900 1900 - 2011
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Why This Study?

• A study of history is profitable for learning
  valuable lessons (1 Corinthians 1011-12)
• We will study how many men sought to restore true
  New Testament Christianity instead of simply
  reforming the errors of man-made doctrines and
  practices set forth by the Catholic Church.
• We will study how men made great sacrifices to
  preach and defend the gospel in order to restore
  New Testament Christianity.

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Religious DenominationsBrought About A Need for
Restoration

• Denominations Coming from Europe
• Denominations Forming in America

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The Restoration Movement

• Causes for the Movement
• Principles of the Movement
• Men within the Movement
• Sacrifices for the Movement

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Restoration Movement Failures

• Progression and Retrogression
• Three Failures 1) American Christian Missionary
  Society 2) Instrumental Music 3) The Disciples
  of Christ Denomination

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Lessons Learned

• Why so many denominations in America?
• Restoration can come about with a love for truth
• Restoration can begin well and end poorly
• A word of warning do not change the NT pattern
  for the changing world around us
• The New Testament church can exist and does exist
  today.

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The Lords Church Through the Ages

• The work of restoration is on-going today
  (Isa. 820 Jer. 616 Lk. 811 Acts 1126)
• Let us be the faithful remnant of the Lords
  church today (1 K. 1918 Rev. 34)