{"quotes":[{"text":"The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["aspect","better","discoveries","factories","god","however","industries","inventions","look","means","most","protestant","protestants","researches","revolutionary","sciences","serve","teaching","ways"],"id":4962,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize five fold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the five fold ministry only tends to view only those called to the five fold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["back","european","fact","five-fold","go","jobs","laity","major","ministry","must","protestants","secular","teaching","today","viewed","we"],"id":16132,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New En.","author":"Benjamin Franklin","tags":["bishops","church-of-england","history","intolerance","new-england","pagans","persecution","protestants","puritans","religious-persecution","roman-catholic"],"id":30868,"author_id":"Benjamin+Franklin"},{"text":"The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","churches","emphasis","four","god","home","how","itself","keeping","love","not","places","protestants","prove","quality","rather","their","through","told","walls","were","work","works"],"id":58941,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["90","inventions","protestants","up","world"],"id":114240,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["all","basic","ethics","morals","protestants","surrounding","teachings","values","were"],"id":124964,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["believers","church","churches","demonstrate","fellows","four","go","god","how","humans","in","love","out","protestants","taught","their","walls"],"id":175101,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Surely we can only come to understand each other's beliefs by means of direct encounter and open, honest discussion. In the meantime, many free churches invite all believers in Jesus Christ to the Table for the sake of true spiritual unity that transcends intellectual differences of interpretation. Withholding sacramental sharing on the basis of disagreement about the nature of the Lord's Supper seems odd to us. What two people think exactly alike about the act? We are not offended by Catholics' closed Communion, but we find it odd and exclusive. It places intellectual understanding above fellowship among disciples of Jesus Christ.","author":"Roger E. Olson","tags":["catholics","communion","ecumenism","eucharist","jesus","lord-s-supper","lord-s-table","protestants","real-presence","sacrament","the-church","transubstantiation"],"id":275381,"author_id":"Roger+E.+Olson"},{"text":"We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["protestants","teachings"],"id":308108,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["aggrandizement","alarming","becomes","birth","charismatic","civilizations","concentrate","ethics","europe","gave","if","individual","modern","protestants","teachings"],"id":331971,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}