Fight the Good Fight of Faith, English Edition

Lesson : The Entrance We Get • 

this core theology and practice of the Church, is believed, preached, and celebrated in local churches around the world, wherever Christ is acknowledged to be both Lord and Christ. The entrance we get, immediately after we believe, is membership in the Church, a membership that can only be fleshed out in a local church with a pastor and real people, where we can grow, worship, and serve Christ together. The Appendices you should study and meditate upon relevant to this lesson are the following: Thirty-three Blessings in Christ (App. 14) In Christ (App. 8) Jesus of Nazareth: The Presence of the Future (App. 4) Going Forward by Looking Back: Toward an Evangelical Retrieval of the Great Tradition (App. 16) The Nicene Creed (App. 24 and 25) The Apostles’ Creed (App. 26) Read and reflect upon the following cases and concepts, and provide answers and insights into their resolution, based on the texts you studied above. 1. “I don’t need to get baptized, do I? I already did it once.” A sister who recently accepted Christ was discussing with her pastor whether she needed to be baptized, since she had already been baptized as a child. Of course, when she was baptized so many years ago, she neither understood nor committed herself to Christ – she was only 12 years old, had no clue what baptism was about, and now was pretty sure that she had not believed in Christ when she did it. What would you advise for that new adult believer – should she seek to be baptized again, but this time, to do it with the full knowledge of what it means, and with a clear sense of her own faith and commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior? 2. My friend says I should “name it and claim it” to receive God’s blessings. How does that jive with what the Bible says?” A new believer is attending a church where Christians are encouraged to “name and claim” the blessings of God for life, for physical needs, for In Christ we have received every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1.3).

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