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This Week in Church HistoryAuthor: Bishop Andy C. Lewter, D. Min.
A weekly review of major moments in the 2000 plus history of the Christian Church, hosted by Bishop Andy C. Lewter, D. Min., who holds an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a graduate degree (Masters of Divinity) from Harvard Divinity School and a terminal degree (Doctor of Ministry) from United Theological Seminary. Bishop Lewter is the Church Historian for the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship and is an adjunct professor at Beulah Heights Bible University in Atlanta, GA. He also serves as the Senior Pastor of the Hollywood Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral of Amityville, NY and the Queens Ministry of New York City. Language: en-us Genres: Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Bishops During the Protestant Reformation
Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
Introduction: The Inheritance We Have Not ClaimedEvery Protestant minister stands in a lineage they may not fully see. The congregation they serve, the title they carry, the Bible open on the pulpit, the very notion that they answer first to Scripture and not to a bishop in Rome — none of these things arrived without a fight. They were won across centuries of conflict, reform, and reinvention, beginning with a single German monk who nailed a sheet of paper to a church door in 1517 and changed the world.Reformation Roots is written for those who lead in the Protestant tradition — pastors, elders, ordained ministers, bishops, deacons, and church administrators — who sense that something important lies behind their practice of ministry but have never had the opportunity to trace it to its source. Bishop Andy Lewter, drawing on fifty years of pastoral ministry and academic formation at three distinguished institutions, argues that the single greatest gap in the formation of Protestant church leaders is not theological knowledge or spiritual discipline. It is historical memory.The book's central conviction is this: to be Protestant is to be, in the most literal sense, a child of the Reformation — whether or not we have ever acknowledged the inheritance. Understanding that inheritance is not an academic exercise. It is the foundation of faithful, accountable leadership.
