Why Are We 'Protestants'?, #1 (We Reject the Papacy)

I'm very excited to be here and to share with you the timely topic of consideration here. We're here tonight to begin to answer the question, why are we Protestants? Why is it that we are not Roman Catholics? This is part of a broader series that we've titled "Ready to Defend." What we're addressing on these midweek meetings is we're answering the question, why do we believe what we believe? It's not just what we believe, but why we believe it. You know, most of us are not Roman Catholics in the audience, and the question is, why not? And so, tonight we're going to start an examination of that question. Why are we Protestants? And the 2009 Pontifical Yearbook released by the Vatican said at that time that there were 1.2 billion, with a "b," Catholics in the world. And as all of you know, they welcomed a new pope yesterday, Pope Francis. And so, there's a lot of media attention being directed to the Catholic Church these days. And so, it's timely for us to undertake an examination of this question. This is not going to be like Sunday preaching. I've got a lot of information that I want to share with you here tonight. Part of my commitment was for you to hear Catholic teaching in their own words, so that you would know exactly what it is that we're dealing with. It's very easy when you're trying to refute another religious system to mischaracterize it, to attack straw men which are really not what they would agree that they believe. Well, we're going to have a lot of direct quotations from their own official documents to help us see that there is a vast gulf between what Catholics teach and what we believe...

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