What is a Catechism and Why Should We Use It? “These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”…
What is glorification? “Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is.” — 1st John 3:2 Answer: When God completes our salvation, setting believers totally free from temptation, and making them like Jesus. They will…
What does the Holy Spirit do in the life of believers after they become Christians? “All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons… The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children…” — Romans 8:14-16 Answer: The Holy Spirit assures, empowers, and guides the Christian. He assures Christians that they are saved. He empowers Christians in developing…
What is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? “…But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.” — Romans 8:9 Answer: At the very moment of salvation the Holy Spirit baptizes believers into the Body of Christ and comes to live inside them from that moment forward. (Taken from “Know…
What is sanctification? “Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” — 1st Corinthians 6:11 Answer: When a person is born again, he or she is set apart from everything else for God. This begins a process of growing…
What is adoption? “But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name.” — John 1:12 Answer: When a person becomes a Christian, God makes him or her part of His eternal family. While everyone is God’s offspring in the general way of being His creation, only Christians…
What part does Jesus have in the end of the world? “God now commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man He has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the…
What does the Bible teach about humankind? “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness… So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.” — Genesis 1:27-28 Answer: Mankind is the special creation of…
What happened after Jesus died? “For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. Then…
Why did Jesus come to earth? “He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree… by His wounding you have been healed.” — 1st Peter 2:24 Answer: To die on the cross as a substitute for our sins. By taking our punishment, He secured forgiveness for our sins. …