The basic teachings of the Protestants were all about values, ethics and morals. The teachings affected the view of the populace to work.
Through their teachings, they dignified even the most mundane of professions. According to them, any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified. They taught people that every work is sacred, as long as the believer does it to the glory of the lord.
The most revolutionary aspect of these teachings, however, was how the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, research, science, the setting up of factories, industries, etc. These led, at first, to about 90% of all inventions coming from the Protestant world. Up till recently, 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution are credited to the countries where the Protestant ethic was taught.
One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is, the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasise a fivefold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the subject only tends to view those called to the fivefold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as the laity who just go to secular jobs.
“And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24 As we can see from these points, the sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and to pull us higher to greater values.
I think it would be interesting for us to know from what perspective the Protestants preached faith. They preached faith not as a means of personal gain or profit. The Protestants preached that through faith we can endure.
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