The Source of Instruction in Worship (WCF 21.1)
/Man, being made in God’s image, innately knows that he needs to worship, but does not (innately) know how to worship.
Man, being made in God’s image, innately knows that he needs to worship, but does not (innately) know how to worship.
Good works are those works with are good by God’s definition and wrought in the believer as evidence of their reality of their faith for the comfort of the believer, the edification of the saints and the glory of God.
Repentance is a true turning from sin, because it understands how heinous sin is and hates it (especially in light of the mercy of Christ) and leads to the blessing of forgiveness.
Faith is the reasonable trust that is placed in a reliable God to deliver on the promises he has made.
One of the qualifications of an elder is that he is able to teach (1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:9). Therefore part of the examination process for our elder candidates was to afford them an opportunity to teach. On this Sunday, Elder candidate Shawn Protsman taught the Sunday School class on adoption.
Because sanctification is a work of grace, it comes by faith, which is built up through God’s ordained means of grace.
Sanctification is a work of God’s grace alone, but this does not preclude an appropriate response of faith and obedience, in fact it demands it.
Sanctification is not an option but a necessary part of the Christian life, though always imperfect in this life.
Justification is based on the obedience and forgiveness of Christ being granted to the believer through faith alone and takes place at the moment of salvation.
Justification is rightly understood (theologically) as a judicial act whereby God pronounces the individual believer right with God on the basis of the obedience and forgiveness of Christ through faith alone.
The sovereignty of God extends even to calling those who are unable to hear or respond to the external call and is not denied by those who appear to be one of us but, by their abandonment, demonstrate their faith to be false.
Effectual calling is that work of God where he undoes the reality of total depravity, effectively enabling and causing us to embrace Jesus Christ for our salvation through a work of new creation.
Effectual calling is that work of God where he undoes the reality of total depravity, effectively enabling and causing us to embrace Jesus Christ for our salvation.
Man has a free will, but it is a freedom that is constrained both by nature and by sin.
Man has a free will, but it is a freedom that is constrained both by nature and by sin.
Part of the priestly work of Christ is his continual intercession on our behalf, wherein he advocates for those whom he has purchased on the cross.
Christ will return, bodily, at the end of the ages as to judge the living and the dead and bring his people into their heavenly inheritance.
The ascension and session of Christ testify that Christ, as our Redeemer, has bodily ascended to heaven with all kingly authority and prepares our home for us.
The resurrection is the proof of the success of Christ, as our redeemer, and the guarantee of the Christian’s blessed reward.
Even those that lived before the incarnation of Jesus Christ were no less saved by his redeeming work and took hold of that through faith.
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