Reformation

Reformation The Reformation: Restoration of the Gospel. The history of the Church is perhaps one of the rockiest histories of any institution in existence. In the Bible it is recorded to have officially begun in Acts, when the Holy Spirit, being promised to come by Christ, is thought to have ascended on the believers. Although it can be argued that Church’s first roots lie in the coming of Christ, many scholars consider this gathering in Acts, the first church. Little would these believers involved know that in the coming future the foundations of the first church would take a journey that would bring transformation of this institution over and over again. In the New Testament, the apostolic fathers are commissioned by Christ to spread the gospel. Thus, these early Church fathers set out to establish churches based on the gospel’s good news of grace. Perhaps the greatest example of this can be examined in the life of the Apostle Paul. In Paul's missionary journeys, he established a number of churches and continually worked to spread the gospel message. In many of his Epistles he emphasizes God's grace and the depravity of man. He is adamant that the old way of viewing the church, luther, god, reformation, one, martin, salvation, luther’s, grace, through, indulgences, life, however, people, longer, christ, catholic, time, gospel, within, theses, sins, pope, love, god’s, bible, rome, righteousness, rather, new, made, good, free, debate, cross