August 30, 2009 PM Worship Service – Vine Street Baptist Church

Interim Pastor Ben Dockery opened the Evening Worship Service with prayer. Two hymns were sung:

364/Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine
374/Your Supper, Lord, Before Us Spread (v1, v3)

These two hymns were sung with intention, because tonight’s focus on church history was on The Reformation. The lesson started with a review

Persecution
Constantine
Creeds & Councils
1517 – Luther

We arrived at “the split” tonight with the “Four Horsemen” (the big players) of the reformation and what they focused on:

Luther – Doctrine
Calvin – Theology
Zwingli – Social/Political
Knox – Presbyterian

The lesson continued with a fairly detailed history on the English Reformation (and how Henry VIII and his wives had an effect on the church), the Radical Reformation (including a little bit of information on the Anabaptists, Mennonites, Amish), and the Counter Reformation. This brought us up to 1648 in the church time line.