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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Church History Makers with Ken Mbugua

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

By God's grace, biblical preaching and theological book publishing are on the rise in the African continent. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Rev. Ken Mbugua joins Dr. Stephen Nichols to share why he is hopeful about the future of the church in Africa.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

0:03.3

We are once again visiting with our friend Reverend Kenneth Embugua.

0:07.1

And as you all know, church history is ongoing.

0:10.6

And someday they'll write church history textbooks about what the church in the 21st century

0:14.9

is doing.

0:15.9

And I think it's very helpful for us, especially us in the American church context, to hear

0:21.1

about what God is doing in the global church.

0:24.7

And just wondering if you could take a few moments and let us know some of the highlights

0:29.7

of how God is at work in the church in Kenya.

0:34.6

So when I look at church history, I was mentioning this to a friend just earlier today.

0:40.6

It's interesting to me to see how in so many different periods, the health of the church

0:47.5

has been connected to the state of preaching, or the coming in of revivals or a reformation,

0:54.8

have come behind or along the reclaiming of biblical preaching in those contexts.

1:02.5

If you look at just the men that we look at in church history and highlight, so many

1:06.2

of those men were people who opened up God's word and proclaimed.

1:09.4

They were pastors.

1:10.4

They were pastors.

1:11.4

Jonathan Edwards.

1:12.4

Charles Virgin.

1:13.4

Martin's is exactly that.

1:14.4

So when I look at Africa now, I won't mention names only because it's not yet history.

1:19.2

It's still the present.

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