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PART 21-13 — Impressive LeadersBe sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others!Support the channel: Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr This episode belongs to TWO playlists:▶️ Why I Left the Church of Christ: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp▶️ Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU About this episode:This walk through West's Search for the Ancient Order, Vol. 1, Ch. 13, steps away from the Society and looks at three men who shaped the brotherhood while it was rising and the opposition was building. Three preachers. Three different gifts. Three different stories. John T. Johnson. Outside of Campbell himself, no preacher in the years […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others!   Consider supporting this channel through:   1. Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join   2. Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr     This episode is part of The Baptism Series on the channel — a careful, foundation-up walk through what baptism actually is, where it came from, what the Bible says about it, and what the church has done with it across two thousand years. Start at the beginning or jump in here:   https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGoYtZr5zovP0OKUrWGnktF&si=jNLYlPVLiP-c-KIt     About this episode:   A wild prophet in a camel-hair shirt. A river at flood stage. Crowds streaming out from Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan. Tax collectors and soldiers asking, “What should we do?” A delegation from the religious authorities […]

Here are the Member Only Videos that are not yet public: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Support the channel: Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr About this video: A short personal thank-you from Bob to anyone who has joined the channel as a member — and a quick word about why the membership tier exists at all. Some background. Running this channel costs more than $100 a month, and closer to $200 when every subscription Bob uses to produce the content is active. A while back, a viewer reached out and asked if there was a way to bless the channel with a gift. Bob's first instinct was to politely decline — he and Wendy have already budgeted for the channel and he was not going to ask anyone for money. Wendy pushed back. […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Support the channel: 1) Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr --- This episode belongs to TWO playlists: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU --- **About this episode:** What was the American Christian Missionary Society actually *doing* during the years the opposition was rising? What missions did it send? And what choices did it make during the Civil War that turned criticism into something far darker? This walk through West's *Search for the Ancient Order*, Vol. 1, Ch. 12, traces the Society's work from […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Support the channel: 1) Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr --- This episode belongs to TWO playlists: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU --- **About this episode:** October 1849. The American Christian Missionary Society was a reality. Campbell was its president. Burnet was its driving force. And almost the moment the society was born, opposition began rising. Quietly at first. Then loudly. From churches. From editors. From men who had been beside Campbell for years. This walk through West's *Search […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Support the channel: 1) Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr --- This episode belongs to TWO playlists: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU --- **About this episode:** In the 1820s, Alexander Campbell wrote articles in the *Christian Baptist* that read like fierce attacks on missionary societies. In 1849, he was elected president of one. Did Campbell change his views — or had his earlier writings been misread all along? That question would haunt the brotherhood for generations. Both sides of the great […]

REPLACED. SEE BETTER QUALITY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1bYil5sCEC8 Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Support the channel: 1) Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr --- This episode belongs to TWO playlists: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU --- **About this episode:** In the 1820s, Alexander Campbell wrote articles in the *Christian Baptist* that read like fierce attacks on missionary societies. In 1849, he was elected president of one. Did Campbell change his views — or had his earlier writings been misread all along? That question […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Consider supporting this channel through: 1. Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2. Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr This episode is part of The Baptism Series on the channel — a careful, foundation-up walk through what baptism actually is, where it came from, what the Bible says about it, and what the church has done with it across two thousand years. Start at the beginning or jump in here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGoYtZr5zovP0OKUrWGnktF&si=jNLYlPVLiP-c-KIt About this episode: In Episode 5 we asked what the Old Testament practiced. In Episode 6, we ask a very different question: what did the New Testament see when it looked back at the Old? Because the apostles didn’t just inherit a Jewish background of water and washings. They read their Bibles and said […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Consider supporting this channel through: 1) Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr This episode is part of TWO series on the channel: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ** – a careful, sources-in-hand journey through the doctrines, history, and assumptions of the Church of Christ tradition, and why I eventually walked a different road. If you grew up in the CoC, love someone who did, or just want an honest inside-out look, start here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order** – a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of West's classic four-volume history of the Restoration Movement, summarized, contextualized, and applied for today's […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others!   Support the channel: 1) Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr --- This episode belongs to TWO playlists: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ** — a sources-in-hand walk through CoC doctrine and history: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order** — chapter-by-chapter through West's four-volume Restoration Movement history: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGd8qTUsH1e9RdZJnDcwZH6&si=L_4cGyRFu9J4B4xU --- **About this episode:** Austintown, Ohio. August 1830. A preacher named John Henry stands up at the Mahoning Baptist Association — the same association that sent Walter Scott out as evangelist three years earlier — […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Consider supporting this channel through: 1) Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr This episode is part of **The Baptism Series** on the channel — a careful, foundation-up walk through what baptism actually is, where it came from, what the Bible says about it, and what the church has done with it across two thousand years. Start at the beginning or jump in here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsGoYtZr5zovP0OKUrWGnktF&si=jNLYlPVLiP-c-KIt --- **About this episode:** When John the Baptist stepped into the Jordan River and started immersing people, he was not inventing something out of nothing. He was stepping into a world that already had a long, deep, theologically loaded history with water. If we don't understand that world, we will […]

Be sure to check out https://www.ThatsJesus.org for YouTube playlists featuring series links on FASTING and CREMATION and others! Consider supporting this channel through: 1) Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegekT9tdVy9SIU9AQX-C9w/join 2) Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.BuyMeACoffee.com/thatsjesusr This episode is part of TWO series on the channel: ▶️ **Why I Left the Church of Christ** – a careful, sources-in-hand journey through the doctrines, history, and assumptions of the Church of Christ tradition, and why I eventually walked a different road. If you grew up in the CoC, love someone who did, or just want an honest inside-out look, start here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdTG9noRxsF3IJvZOxPWb7035qpvLyy6&si=8U6HVJ3rmOL87lpp ▶️ **Earl Irvin West – The Search for the Ancient Order** – a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of West's classic four-volume history of the Restoration Movement, summarized, contextualized, and applied for today's […]

Title: Three Preachers Who Watched the Brotherhood Begin to Split | Franklin, Fanning, Creath Description: Three preachers. Three different roles. The same conviction. Ben Franklin edited the most influential paper in the conservative brotherhood in the North. Tolbert Fanning shaped the South through Franklin College and the Gospel Advocate. Jacob Creath Jr. was the conscience that would not be silenced. All three opposed the American Christian Missionary Society. All three opposed the introduction of instrumental music in worship. All three watched the brotherhood begin to fracture — and none lived to see how it would end. Based on Earl Irvin West, The Search for the Ancient Order, Volume 1, Chapter 6. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Ben Franklin 05:20 The American Christian Review and the missionary society 07:45 Franklin's death 09:30 Tolbert Fanning 12:00 Franklin College and the Gospel Advocate 14:15 Fanning's final Lord's Day 15:40 Jacob Creath Jr. 17:50 Expelled by the […]

**TITLE:** BAPTISM 4 - Rest of Word Family **DESCRIPTION:** The New Testament does not use the same word for washing your cups and for being baptized into Christ. It uses one word for the cups — and a completely different word for the believer. Same family. Same root. Different realities. Today we finish the Greek word family behind "baptize." Over the last two episodes, we looked at baptō (the root) and baptizō (the verb for intensive immersion). Now we take the final three words — one names a person, one names a type of washing, and one names the act of baptism itself. In this episode: • βαπτιστής (baptistēs) — "the baptizer," used 14 times in the New Testament, always and only for John • Why Mark sometimes calls him "John the Baptizing One" instead of "John the Baptist" • βαπτισμός (baptismos) — the word for Jewish ceremonial washings, used for cups, pitchers, and copper pots — but never for Christian baptism • βάπτισμα (baptisma) […]

DESCRIPTION Alexander Campbell could write. Campbell could debate. Campbell could give the Restoration Movement its theology and its arguments. But Campbell by himself could not have done what these three men did. In Part 21 of Why I Left the Church of Christ, I walk through Chapter 5 of Earl Irvin West's Search for the Ancient Order, Volume 1. This is the chapter that introduces the men who carried the movement forward with Campbell: Walter Scott, W. K. Pendleton, and David S. Burnet. Walter Scott took the gospel to the people. In November 1827, at New Lisbon, Ohio, he preached on Acts 2:38, and a man named William Amend pushed through a packed crowd to be baptized. Scott boiled the message down to what he called the five-finger gospel: faith, repentance, baptism, remission of sins, gift of the Holy Spirit. Then he rode the Western Reserve for two years and shook it to the foundations. W. K. Pendleton ran the institutions. Virginia aristocrat, calm, dignified, married to Campbell's […]