Church History D1-1
Church History
I. Objectives
A. Understand God’s blueprint for the true church
B. Understand what the Bible says about church history
C. Understand the history of the early church
D. Understand the True Jesus Church is the church established by God
E. Understand the True Jesus Church is the only true church
II. Introduction
A. What is history?
B. What is church?
C. The characteristics of church
D. The church in the Old Testament
E. The time has fully come
F. Jesus and the church
G. The church in the New Testament
H. What the Bible says about church history
III. The Apostolic Church (33-100)
A. The Holy Spirit and the church
B. The church and the message
C. The church and the creed
D. The church and its organization
E. The church and apologetics
F. The church and the persecution
G. The church and heresy
H. The church and the Roman Empire
IV. The Apostolic Fathers (33-325)
A. The doctrine
B. Apostolic fathers
C. The apologist
D. False teachings arise
E. The church fathers
F. A creed and a canon
G. The development of the Episcopate
1. The development of the western church
2. The development of the bishop system
3. The origin of the pope
4. The worship of saints
5. Monasticism
V. The Church in the Early Ages (313-632)
A. The Milan Edict
B. The church and the state
C. The Catholic Church and the creed
D. The doctrine of Trinity
VI. The Church in the Middle Ages (632-1517)
A. Islam
B. The church and papal development
C. The church divided
D. The Crusades
VII. The Church in the Reformation (1517-1648)
A. The Renaissance movement
B. The Sacrament of Penance
C. The Ninety-Five Theses
D. Martin Luther
E. Ulrich Zwingli
F. John Calvin
G. Catholic reformation
VIII. The Church after Reformation (1649- )
A. John Wesley
B. The Great Awakening
C. The Mormons
D. The Adventists
E. Jehovah’s Witnesses
F. The Pentecostal movement
IX. The Later Apostolic Church (1917- )
A. The Pentecostal movement
B. The time has fully come
C. God established His true church in China
1. The True Jesus Church
2. The doctrines of TJC
3. The organizational structure of TJC
4. TJC’s place in the church history
NYTS 2008, Pacifica, USA 1 Wen-Chuan Yeh