Welcome to another episode of five minutes in church history.

In this episode we're going to be looking at a document called the five point deliverance.

Now if you know Calvinism, you know that Calvinists like their five points.

Well this isn't exactly that. The five-point deliverance comes

out of the fundamentalist modernist controversy at the beginning of the 20th century. Now to set the stage

here, we need to understand that liberalism, which was functioning and you might even say ruling in many ways in the church and Europe,

was beginning to wash ashore in the American Church in different American denominations

at the end of the 1800s and in the early 20th century made significant inroads, in the Baptist denomination and the Lutherans among the Presbyterians.

And so there was a group within the theological conservatives,

those that come to be called the fundamentalists that saw what was at stake.

They saw that these long-held doctrines of the church, what would constitute historic orthodoxy,

were being challenged.

And so within the Presbyterian Church,

there was a group who got together

and established what was called the five-point deliverance.

Now, they added this to the subscription

for ministers who wanted to be in the Presbyterian

denomination. Ministers had to ascribe to the Westminster standards and they

had to affirm their fidelity to the standards and what they were finding was that in the

90s and in the 1910s these young ministerial candidates would come along they

would say they believed in the Westminster standards and then they would go off into

pulpit's and they would be teaching that scripture is not fully an error

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