Theology of the Church, Mentor's Guide, MG03

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T H E O L O G Y O F T H E C H U R C H

The following questions were designed to help you review the material in the second video segment related to the meaning of salvation. As you answer the questions, focus on ideas that make it clear what the Bible means when it speaks about “salvation.” Remember that these questions are not trying to define how Jesus accomplished salvation or how people become saved (those ideas will be discussed in other Capstone modules) but rather to help us be clear about what salvation is. Be clear and concise in your answers, and where possible, support with Scripture!

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Student Questions and Response

1. What are the three results of sin that human beings need to be saved from?

2. What do Jesus’ parables about lost things, in Luke 15, teach us about salvation?

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3. Why is “union with Christ” the key to salvation?

4. Why is it important to understand that salvation always involves being incorporated into the Church? 5. Why can a Christian believer say “I have been saved” and “I will be saved” and know that both statements are equally true?

This lesson focuses upon God’s sovereign design to redeem a people out of the earth that would belong to him forever. The Church is foreshadowed in the covenant God made to Abraham, in the mystery revealed now concerning the Gentiles, and through the pattern of the people of Israel. God has saved his people for his own glory, uniting them to himself through their faith in Jesus Christ. To be saved individually is to be united by faith to Christ, and in him, to his redeemed community. God’s high purpose, his ultimate intention, is to bring himself glory and honor through his creation and through his people in the person of Jesus Christ. All things exist by his will and for his glory. The Church of Jesus Christ is foreshadowed in God’s statement of his exalted purpose. From the beginning, God has determined to bring glory to himself by redeeming from among humanity a people that would belong to him forever. He accomplished this through his covenant with Abraham.

Summary of Key Concepts

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