the confessing church of the 21st century - christopher gornold-smith (salt 2014)

The Confessing Churchof the 21st century

Die Bekennende Kirche

The Confessing Church

Matthew 10:32 (Luther’s Bible, 1545)

• Wer nun mich bekennet vor den Menschen,

den will ich bekennen vor meinem

himmlischen Vater.

• “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before

men, him will I confess also before my Father

which is in heaven.” (KJV)

Niemöller Barth Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas,BONHOEFFER:

Pastor, Martyr,

Prophet, SpyThomas Nelson, 2010

The Confessing Churchof the 21st century

Erwin W. LutzerWhen a Nation

Forgets God:7 Lessons We Must

Learn from Nazi

GermanyMoody Publishers, 2010

TWO VIEWS OF THE KINGDOM

• 1. Kingdom Now, Dominion Theology,

Reconstructionism

• 2. Remnant Theology, Pietism

WHERE ARE WE?

John L. Allen, Jr.The Global War

on Christians:Dispatches from

the Front Lines of

Anti-Christian

PersecutionRandom House, 2013

What does the future hold?

VICTORY!But there is no victory without a battle; there is no battle without an enemy.The greater the victory, the greater the pain.

2 Timothy 1:6-8

• For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

• For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

• So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord.

Eric Metaxas,BONHOEFFER:

Pastor, Martyr,

Prophet, SpyThomas Nelson, 2010

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

MARTIN LUTHERApril 18th, 1521

DIETRICH BONHOEFFERThe Cost of Discipleship218-19

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

The Confessing Churchof the 21st century

Eric Metaxas,BONHOEFFER:

Pastor, Martyr,

Prophet, SpyThomas Nelson, 2010

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Erwin W. LutzerWhen a Nation

Forgets God:7 Lessons We Must

Learn from Nazi

GermanyMoody Publishers, 2010

John L. Allen, Jr.The Global War

on Christians:Dispatches from

the Front Lines of

Anti-Christian

PersecutionRandom House, 2013