What is a Restoration?
Today I wanted to look into why we had a restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ rather than a reformation or even just a reorganization. Let's jump in! As we know, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ came to this earth and established His church. With divinely inspired instruction He organized and called the 12 Apostles. (see Matthew 10) He called the 70. (see Luke 10:1-9) Christ founded the saints of the time in the only veritable and sound base: The doctrines of his masterful teachings. Soon after his Death and Resurrection, he charged the Apostles to go abroad, preaching the gospel and building up His church and the kingdom of God on earth (see Matthew 28:18-20) We know the Apostles worked hard and had much success but as time rolled forward, persecution reared its tumultuous head and the church and it's saints began to fracture and dwindle even with the Apostles crying for them to return to the foundations of the gospel. (see Revelations 1-3) Soon a...