This Weekend's Reflection: by Jeff Taylor Pastor of Teaching & Worship
Wii Made It!! Wii just finished our series on the foundational beliefs of the Christian faith as documented in our LBF belief statements. It has been a real treat for both Gary and myself to get to dive so deeply into these foundational topics in the Word and bring it to the body. We understand that some of the topics and points made have a lot of debate surrounding them, but our prayer is that we would all be open to what God want to speak to us through His Word.
As we said throughout the series, we want to encourage you to dive into the study of the Word of God. It does not require a theology degree, or even hours of research. There are so many resources out there which offer in depth information to help each of us understand, at our own levels. A couple of the resources that Gary and I have used for this series as well as others
are:
"An Exploration Of Christian Theology" by Don Thorsen Hendrickson Publishers Inc. 2008
*** This is the one we handed out to various church members who posted "Mii's" on the LBF Facebook page.
"Introducing Christian Doctrine" Second Edition by Millard Erickson Published by Baker Academic 2001
Share some of your reflections on the series and how God has spoken to you about your faith and living out what you believe. Here is a quick recap of the topics in the series:
TITLE: Wii Believe Sin the Bible
BIG IDEA: The Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings and is the final authority in matters of faith and life.
TEXTS: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:19-21
TITLE: Wii Believe in the Triune God
BIG IDEA: God is one in essence, eternally existing in three persons the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit they are co-equal in attributes, power and glory and equally worthy of all obedience, worship, praise and adoration
TEXTS: Matthew 28:19, Deuteronomy 6:4, John 14:6-7, John 5:23, Acts 5:3-4
TITLE: Wii Believe in Jesus
BIG IDEA: Jesus Christ was born of a virgin he is fully God and fully man and that having lived a sinless life, was buried following his crucifixion on the cross at Calvary he rose bodily from the dead. He is the only Savior through whom fallen man can find forgiveness and salvation.
TEXTS: Luke 1:30-35, 24; John 1:29, 8:46; Hebrews 4:15; 1 John 3:5
TITLE: Wii Believe that mankind is sinful and separated from God BIG IDEA: We cannot be "Good Enough". Humanity is lost and sinful and therefore needs to be saved. That salvation and forgiveness is made possible by the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ on the cross and comes to each person through personal faith in Christ, the Crucified One and that salvation is by grace alone not by any good works.
TEXTS: Romans 3:10-23, 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 Peter 2:24
TITLE: Wii Believe in the Holy Spirit
BIG IDEA: We believe that the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ at Salvation and then distributes Spiritual gifts to each believer as He wills and seals the believer for the day of redemption.
TEXTS: 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30
TITLE: Wii Believe Christians are called to walk by the Spirit BIG IDEA: We believe as Christians we are called to walk by the Spirit, not after the flesh so our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in all things.
TEXTS: Galatians 5:156-26; 1 Peter 4:11; Romans 12:1,2
TITLE: Wii Believe in the resurrection
BIG IDEA: We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved.
Those that are saved will be resurrected into life and those that are unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation.
TEXTS: Corinthians 15; revelation 20:4-6; Daniel 12:2
TITLE: Wii Believe He'll Be Back (Second Coming Of Christ) BIG IDEA: We believe that Jesus Christ will come again to this world to rule and reign in righteousness and that His coming again is imminent and that it will be literal, personal and visible.
TEXTS: John 14:1-6, Acts 1:11
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