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Discovery 101Session 2: January 15th 2012Session 2: January 15 , 2012
Who are you?! Who am I?!
LUTHERANISMLUTHERANISM
What We’re Going To Do
• Accomplish 3 Basic Objectives
• 1) Establish Community
• 2) Learn Mission
• 3) Intentional Application
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Quick Trip down Memory Lane
• Summarize in your own words…
• 3 Points from last Sunday
• Our Closing Challenge
In Your Own Words
• Point # 1:
• Deeper Community…
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Deeper Community
• “Two are better than one, because they have d t f th i k If f ll da good return for their work: If one falls down,
his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! … Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”
– Ecclesiastes 4:9‐10, 12 (NIV)
Point # 2 In Your Own Words
• Point # 2: We covered 3 basic areasareas
• Who is God?
• What is the Bible?
• What the Creeds are.
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Point # 2 In Your Own Words
• God is (Genesis 1‐3) • Creator, Trinitarian, Savior & Sustainer
• The Bible is (2 Timothy 3:16)
Savior & Sustainer
• Given BY GOD to man; God breathed
• Trustworthy, passedTrustworthy, passed down as most reliable & accurate copy of original writings
How reliable?
• Manuscript Evidence for Ancient WritingsA th W itt E li t C Ti S #M• Author Written Earliest Copy Time Span #Mss.
• 1) Caesar 100‐44 B.C. 900 A.D. 1,000 yrs 10
• 2) Plato 427‐347 B.C. 900 A.D. 1,200 yrs 7
• 3) Thucydides 460‐400 B.C. 900 A.D. 1,300 yrs 8
• 4) Tacitus 100 A.D. 1100 A.D. 1,000 yrs 20
• 5) Suetonius 75‐160 A.D. 950 A.D. 800 yrs 8) y
• 6) Homer 900 B.C. 400 B.C. 500 yrs 643
• 7) N.T 40‐100 A.D. 125 A.D. 25‐50 yrs 24,000
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Point # 2 In Your Own Words
• The Creeds – “We believe that Jesus reigns!”
• John 20:31 “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
– Summary of our faith like Deuteronomy 6:5 & Matthew 22:34‐40
God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.”
Point # 3
• Our Closing Challenge – LOVE & OBEY by…
• Getting in God’s Word with other believers!!!
• This is how we ESTABLISH Deeper Community
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What We’re Going To Cover
• 1) God & The Bible
• 2) Lutheranism
• 3) Law
• 4) Gospel
• 5) Sacraments
• 6) Church – Roots & Purpose
• 7) The Next Step – Our New Life
Lutheranism
• Who are you?!
• Who am I?!
• YOUR theological ancestry in 30 seconds or less!
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Brief History of Denominations
• “Holy Father, protect them by the power of Y N th N Y th tYour Name – the Name You gave me – so that they may be one as we are one…My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; Your Word is truth.”
• ‐ Jesus’ prayer in John 17:11b & 15‐17 (NIV)
Brief History of Denominations
• Early Church (i.e. Book of Acts) started approx. 27 A D to 35 A D27 A.D. to 35 A.D.
• 313 A.D. ‐ Emperor Constantine legalizes Christian worship in Roman Empire ‐ Roman Catholic Church
• The Great Schism began in 5th Century AD & finalized in 1054 AD – RC & Greek Orthodox
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Lutheranism
• Initially Religious Movement WITHIN RC Church rooted in the problem that “came fromChurch rooted in the problem that came from the church straying from reliance on the Bible.” – p. 176 Kinnaman
• Are we saved by grace from God or by what d ?we do?
• Is the Bible held up as the (sole) Authority?• What do the Sacraments mean? – p. 178
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Lutheranism ‐ Confessions
• “A Lutheran is a person who believes, teaches and confesses the truths of God’s Word as they and confesses the truths of God s Word as they are summarized & confessed in the Book of Concord.” – p. 179 Kinnaman
• Connection between Bible & the Lutheran Confessions:
• “The Lutheran confessions urge us to believe the Scriptures, for they will not lie to you and cannot be false & deceitful.” – p. 181
Lutheranism ‐ Confessions
• Main Point of Lutheran Confessions:
• “Sincere concern about false, misleading teachings, which, unfortunately, even to this very day, obscure the glory & merit of Jesus Christ zealous concern about the Gospel ofChrist…zealous concern about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” – p. 181 Kinnaman
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Different Lutherans
• Biggest issue that plagued & divided American Lutherans in 20th Century was/IS issue ofLutherans in 20 Century was/IS issue of theological liberalism & biblical inerrancy
• Theological Liberalism – view Bible as inspired by God but historically conditioned and imperfect…
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of America holds this theological position
Different Lutherans
• On the other side of the issue…Lutheran Church Missouri Synod & WisconsinChurch Missouri Synod & Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
• View Bible as incapable of error (infallible) and free from error (inerrant), because very words & h f S i t i i d ( d& phrases of Scripture were inspired (and GIVEN) by God the Holy Spirit. Consequently, the Word of God does not lie.
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Different Lutherans
• Conservative Lutherans remained committed t hi t i iti f L th i b tto historic position of Lutheranism about Bible’s reliability and truthfulness…others, were open to new interpretive methods such as historical criticism…
• *Last 3 slides hold summaries found in Kinnaman on page 193
Closing Challenge
• John 20:31believe it
• LOVE & OBEY– believe it
• Deuteronomy 6:4‐9– teach it • EQUIP
• Col. 3:16‐17 & Mt. 28:16‐20– live IN it • SHARE
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Closing Challenge
• Love & Obey = first step
• Equip ourselves & the world = second step
to becoming…
A World Changer