20 March 1858 A.D. (Lutheran) Rev. John Gossner Passes—Driven from Russia and Cradle-Romanism, Becomes Lutheran Pastor
20 March 1858 A.D. (Lutheran) Rev. John Gossner Passes—Driven from Russia and Cradle-Romanism, Becomes Lutheran Pastor Editors. “John Gossner Driven from Russian and Denomination.” Christianity.com. Jun 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/john-gossner-driven-from-russia-and-denomination-11630510.html . Accessed 19 Mar 2015. When John Gossner studied the words of John Michael Sailer and Martin Boos, they warmed his heart as no other religious teaching had. As a young Catholic priest in Germany late in the 1790s, he longed for a Christianity that would make him alive. Sailer's evangelical movement within Catholicism pointed him toward the spiritual understanding he had craved. Eventually he wrote that one cannot inherit salvation by birth in a Christian family or a Christian education. Faith must come from God. The natural birth is a natural birth. A new birth is needed, a life from above. He began to teach others what he had...