Schedule: October 20-22, 2023

Friday Night, October 20

5:00 – 5:50                Dinner at the Church

6:00 – 6:55                Understanding the Original Church

• Defining & understanding what a church is
• Core beliefs of the church Jesus established
• Prevailing influences on the early churches
• Reasons for the rapid spread of early Christianity

7:05 – 8:00                Christianity in a Pagan World

• Jewish persecution
• Pagan persecution
• How the Romans persecuted Christians
• Original churches compared & contrasted with churches 200 years later

Saturday Morning, October 21

9:00 – 9:55                The Rise of False Doctrine

• Shifting definitions
• Major heresies
• Pagan corruptions
• Denial of the deity of Christ
• The strengthening of heresies
• Big name writers

10:05 –11:00           A Recognized Central Authority

• Gnostics
• The need for a canon
• The process of canonization
• The basis of authenticity
• Closing the canon
• Constantine & the state church
• Those who refused the state church
• Core issues

11:10 – 12:05           The Rise of the Papacy

• Charismatic pastors in Rome
• Doctrinal controversies
• The split
• The new political landscape
• The consolidation of papal power

12:05 – 12:30           Lunch Break

12:30 – 1:20             The True Unbroken Line

• Names of the faithful
• The eastern line
• The central line
• The western line
• The reign of terror
• Torture methods and tools

Sunday, October 22

10:00 – 10:50           A Boiling Cauldron

• Islam
• The state of the Roman Catholic papacy
• The Crusades
• Reformation

11:00 – 12:00           What God Wants From Every Person

12:00 – 1:00            Fellowship Lunch

1:10 – 2:00                First Century Christianity to America

• The Protestant Reformation
• The King James Bible
• The Anabaptists & the Baptists