W. Robert Godfrey

He told them the way to do things.

Robert Godfrey, you know the name, said, John Calvin probably would have been an easily forgotten minor figure in the Reformation if not for Butzer.

And John Woodbridge is one of the great scholars.

You might not have heard of him, but one of the great church historians says, Calvin became himself.

the movement, the resurgence of Reformed Baptist churches in the USA and beyond?

Well, Bob Godfrey, Dr. Robert Godfrey, who was president of Westminster, approached Earl Blackburn about the possibility of bringing a Baptist onto campus in Escondido.

And so Earl brought that to other pastors.

An ad hoc committee was formed.

So to see God's providence will be the primary goal today.

One more quote in opening from W. Robert Godfrey.

I would highly recommend, if you're interested in church history, I would highly recommend his teaching series through Ligonier.

I don't know that it's free anymore, but it was truly beneficial to me over many years.

And for the next two weeks, we'll be diving into the history of the Protestant Reformation.

Both of the messages that you'll hear today and next Saturday are from Dr. Godfrey's exploration of church history.

This study includes six teaching series with more than 70 messages covering the early church right up to our modern era.

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Here's Dr. Godfrey now on the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

Well, we are about to complete what I think of as our mad dash through a millennium of church history, and, uh, we've been able to touch some of the high points.

And he's really interesting, so [laughs] that's also a factor, someone who's interesting.

In the second volume, um, Bob Godfrey somewhere will be rejoicing.

Yeah.

I have a chapter on Sister Amy McPherson.

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What a pleasure it is to be with Dr. W. Robert Godfrey, my good friend over all these years, mentor, so you can blame pretty much any error that, that you see in my theology-

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... on his influence.

Martin Luther is often thought of as the first of the Protestant reformers, but were there other reform movements that came before Luther? Find out next Saturday as we begin a study in church history with Dr.

W. Robert Godfrey here on Renewing Your Mind.

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Obviously, though, it's, it's difficult after, um, the, uh, the death of such a, a wonderful communicator, um, and just such a great man, uh, who ran the race right till the end, and that's always tough.

But I think in a few of the teaching fellows, uh, that, uh, that have carried on, so, um, others, there's, uh, so recently actually I think Mike Reeves, uh, Joel Kim, these two who've been, um, who've been selected recently, but since then, or before then, sorry, um, Bob Godfrey, uh, is another one, and, uh, I think Sinclair Ferguson is, um, is, is just have been a wonderful, uh, teaching fellow for Ligonier over a number of years.

Um, and I think ultimately they want to platform, uh, these teachers and say, "Look, s- go and listen to Sinclair Ferguson and read some stuff by him wherever you find it, and it will, uh, be really beneficial to your spiritual life, your understanding of union with Christ, and a whole number of other doctrines."

Yeah.