Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. This episode is

entitled The Roaring 20s and you might think it has something to do with what

historians typically call the Roaring 20s. Well it does have to do with the 20s but it doesn't have anything to do

with flat dancing or any of that. In fact it has everything to do with the church.

Let's call it the roaring 20s because what we have in the 1920s is a lot of battles.

Battles taking place within the church in the last couple weeks together we looked at the

five-point deliverance and that five-point deliverance was a sort of boundary

marker between on the one hand the liberals

that were in the church and on the other hand the theological conservatives or as we've come to call

them the fundamentalists.

Well that five-point deliverance was drafted in the 1910s in the 1920s it was set aside.

The tide had shifted in the Presbyterian Church and it shifted towards the moderates

and towards the more liberal position away from the theological conservatives and one of the

of the first things they did once they were in more power in the

denomination was to simply do away with that five-point

deliverance and to remove it from ordination vowels.

There was a crucial moment in all of this and it comes in 1922.

In 1922 there was a minister at Riverside Cathedral.

He had been at First Presbyterian Church in New York,

but he wasn't a Presbyterian, he was a Baptist.

And so he was removed from that pulpit, but he had a friend.

His friend was John Rockefeller, and John Rockefeller simply built him a cathedral, and we know it as Riverside Cathedral in New York City.

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