RESTORATION

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• RESTORATION

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Restoring Christianity

• Restore everything of a permanent nature

• -Plan of salvation
• -Worship
• -Organization
• -Discipline
• -Love
• -Unity

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The Restoration Principle

• Restore everything of a permanent nature?

• Impossible.
• Which church do you want to restore?
• Core components.
• Change as culture changes.

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Restoring Christianity

• -Prepared for the Christ to come.
• -Divine format for Christianity.
• -Christianity as practiced in the afirst century
  was exactly what aGod intended for all centuries.
• -Would be for all ages and all --apeople.

• Restore everything of a permanent nature

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Restoring Christianity

• And in the days of these kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which shall never be
  destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to
  other people it shall break in pieces and
  consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
  forever.

• Daniel 244

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Restoring Christianity

• And in the days of these kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which shall never be
  destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to
  other people it shall break in pieces and
  consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
  forever.

• Daniel 244

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Restoring Christianity

• Restore everything of a permanent nature

• IF THE WORLD IS TO BE SAVED, IT MUST CONFORM TO
  THE PATTERN OF PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.

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Restoring Christianity

• And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

EON - AGE
CULTURE

• Romans 122

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Restoring Christianity

• And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

EON - AGE
CULTURE

• Romans 122

TEST
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Restoring Christianity

• Good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

• Culture
• Sinful things of the world.

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Restoring Christianity

• Good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

• Culture
• Sinful things of the world.

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WHICH VIEW IS CORRECT?

• Christianity must change with the culture.

• Christianity must be restored as it was in the
  first century.

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WHICH VIEW IS CORRECT?

• NEW
• AND
• IMPROVED

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CHANGE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES?

• Catholicism
• Protestant denominations

• It is most likely that in the Apostolic age
  when there was but one Lord, one faith, and one
  baptism, and no differing denominations existed,
  the baptism of a convert by that very act
  constituted him a member of the church, and at
  once endowed him with all the rights and
  privileges of full membership. In that sense,
  baptism was the door into the church. Now it is
  different (Hiscox 1890, 22).

Not only doctrine, but the concept of morality
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WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

• When God establishes a system of religion, its
  obligations remain intact until God Himself
  provides evidence that it is no longer in effect.
• No one has the right to modify the Divine
  arrangement.

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WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

• Joshua 2414-15
• 1 Kings 1632 1817, 18, 21
• 2 Kings 2112-14 2325
• Revelation 25

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THE PLEA IS VALID TODAY

• To reject the restoration of Christianity
  ordained by God in the first century is to reject
  the Bible itself.
• And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will
  draw all peoples to Myself. This He said,
  signifying by what death He would die. (John
  1232-33)

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GODS PLAN OF SALVATION

• Hear the gospel (Rom. 1017).
• Believe in Jesus (John 824).
• Repent of sins (Acts 238).
• Confess faith in Christ (Romans 109-10).
• Be Baptized into Christ for the remission of sins
  (Acts 238).
• Live faithful Christian life (Rev. 210).