Where In The Bible Will I Find:

Return To Jerusalem For All Faith And Practice In Religion?

During the first century A.D., it was, and had been for years, the custom for all Jews to return to Jerusalem for their worship. When Jesus was twelve years of age His parents made their usual trip along with the boy Jesus, to Jerusalem. After their worship they started back home assuming that Jesus was in their company, but after a day's journey they found Him not. They then returned to Jerusalem to find Jesus.

In today's religious world, it's assumed that Jesus is in their company. But to find Jesus they must return to Jerusalem. For there, Jesus built His church in the year 33 A.D. Terms of entrance to His church were given by Jesus and then preached by His apostles. To know what these terms are we must return (in our study) to Jerusalem and learn just what people were required to do then in order to be saved and then if we believe and do the same things today, we too, will be saved.

These same thoughts were in the minds of those early courageous pioneers in the restoration of the New Testament church over two hundred years ago. Some six hundred years after the Lord's church was established, apostasy within it busted out into Roman Catholicism, a man made religion controlled by the devil.

In the early part of the sixteenth century the back of this old serpent was broken by Martin Luther who sought to reform it, but a thing so corrupt that it cannot and will not be reformed must be destroyed. There were many good and honest men, who sought reformation, and each had many followers, but it only resulted in the start of more denominations.

It was in the eighteenth century, from various quarters of the world, there came a general call that the TRUE GOSPEL must be preached. With the religious world being divided, each having its own creed, bearing some human name, they knew that only a complete return to the New Testament was the answer. They had a determination, not to reform, but to RESTORE the New Testament church.

Therefore, the great Restoration Movement was launched through the religious world including many places in the United States. Their doctrine was to be the WORD OF GOD, their creed, the BIBLE, they would speak where the Bible speaks, they would be silent where the Bible is silent. They would lay aside ALL human names and be called "CHRISTIANS," (Acts 11:26).

In practice, there would be absolutely nothing required of any man other than that which is taught in the Bible either by direct statement, or by approved example, or by necessary inference. That, in all things of faith, let there be unity; in all matters of opinion, let there be liberty: But in all things, let there be charity. Honest people must admit, one cannot start something that had already been started nearly two thousand years earlier. The church of Christ today is that which returned to Jerusalem, to the year 33 A.D. and found Jesus for ALL its faith and practice in religion.