The Church Documentary Free for October

Hi, I'm John Snyder, director of Media Gratiae, and during the month of October, we want to celebrate the Protestant Reformation. Some of you might go to churches that have Reformation Day. The Protestant Reformation, just over 500 years ago, it was a time of rediscovery.

We think of the Latin phrases that describe the key elements of what was reemphasized or rediscovered during the Protestant Reformation, Sola Scriptura, Sola Christus, Sola Fide, Sola Gratiae, and Sola Deo Gloria.

But as we think of those big phrases, which are kind of the flagstones, the foundational stones of true Christianity, one of the things that the Reformation also did was helped Christians to think again or to rediscover the significance, the importance in the kingdom of God, the beauty of the local church, of the gathering of believers.

In 2020, Media Gratiae set out to do a documentary and a corresponding study with Dr. Jeff Johnson on the nature of the church, and the study is called The Church, Pillar and Ground of the Truth. And here is the study here.

I'm going to open this one. This is the complete study set, and it comes with two books by Jeff, The Church, Pillar and Ground of Truth, and The Church, Her Nature, Authority, Purpose, and Worship. And it also comes with DVDs, and one of these is the documentary.

And as the team traveled throughout the world, literally making the documentary, they were also putting together this study on the church. And if you haven't looked at that, I hope that you will. Very simple.

Jeff is such a down-to-earth guy. He's a pastor, he is the head of a seminary, and he's a teacher. But I would say that more than anything, what sticks out in my mind about Jeff is that he is a genuine follower of Christ.

Just very, what you see is what you get. So together with Jeff, Media Gratia has put this together, and what we want to do for this week in celebration of the Reformation is to make the documentary available to all of you.

And so I hope that you find that it really stirs your heart to go back to Scripture and to ask the Lord, do I see your people, your church, the local expression of God's people, do I see that the way you see that?

And how can I be more biblically involved in being a part of what God is doing through the church?