Monday, May 30, 2011

QUESTION: What was the restoration movement?

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QUESTION: What was the restoration movement?
ANSWER: Following the “Dark Ages,” (A period of time lasting for several
hundred years through the fourteenth century), men like Martin Luther and others
began the task of trying to “reform” the apostate Catholic Church. They were
unsuccessful in this attempt and created an atmosphere in which
denominationalism had it’s rise. More recently, primarily during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, men on both sides of the world began to
simultaneously, through the providence of God, realize the need to restore New
Testament Christianity to it’s original design and intent. These men had realized
that the “Reformation” was a failure and, thus, began what was to become known
as the “Restoration Movement.” The success of this effort is seen in the many
churches of Christ (Romans 16:16) which now circle the globe!