Kootenai Church: The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

Questions regarding the Reformation were answered by the elders of Kootenai Church--Jim Osman, Dave Rich, Jess Whetsel, and Cornel Rasor. Some of the questions asked in no particular order:

• Are Christians other than elders allowed to baptize other believers?
• In what context should baptisms be performed?
• What is the Catholic belief of "Patron Saints"?
• What happens to leftover Communion?
• How do you answer the charge that Protestants have their own bloody history to account for?
• How does Rome deal with their bloody history in its persecution of Protestants?
• What about the charge that Christians participated in the crusades?
• Today Roman Catholics would not consider “anathema” to be anything more than ex-communication but not condemnation. Why do you make the claim that it is condemnation? Is anyone attending the Catholic Church going to Heaven?
• What is biblical baptism vs. covenantal baptism?

A look at what Luther called “the hinge upon which the whole [Reformation] turns,” the subject of “free will.” This message provides an exposition of 1 Peter 1:3 and a look at what Scripture says regarding the nature of man’s will. Is it free? Is salvation a matter of man’s own independent choosing, or is salvation the work of God?

If you would like further reading on that subject we would recommend these:

• The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
• The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
• The Plan of Salvation by B.B. Warfield
• Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Book 2, Chapter 2