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