Understanding Your Religion
7 Major Doctrines that Define Christianity
God's Method of Reconciliation (continued)
The Sub-Doctrine of Atonement - Part 2
指導方針
This lesson is a continuation of God’s Method of Reconciliation. Of special note in this lesson is the language the Bible uses to describe Jesus’ act of atonement.
学生の学習成果
- Know: Understand how Christ’s sacrifice satisfies the requirements of God’s justice and love.
- Feel: Appreciate the love God has for us.
- Do: Seek to live faithfully to God’s will.
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討論の質問
以下は、授業の指導付き討論部分で使用するための提案された質問です。また、学生がさまざまな概念を理解するのを助けるための質問への提案された回答も含まれています。これらは討論を支援するために提供されており、「正しいまたは間違っている」回答とは見なされません。
The intent of this question is to help students understand the meaning of atonement. Look for expressions commonly used. As a follow-up question, ask students to explain in their own words what the term or expression they used means to them.
Common expressions are: payment for the debt of sin, satisfying God's justice, sacrifice of Jesus for our sins, freedom from sin.
There are many emotions one can express. For example, mercy, grace, pity or forgiveness, but the core emotion is love. As a follow-up question, ask how other emotions involved with our forgiveness have love as a foundation.
In reality, there is nothing we can add. We might want to but Jesus paid the full price (I Peter 2:24). This gets to the heart of Paul's words in Ephesians 2:8, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God." We cannot earn any part of our salvation. We can only respond to God's grace through our faith.
- Belief – We believe who Jesus is and what God has done through Him.
- Repentance – We resolve to put sin away from our lives.
- Confession – We acknowledge Jesus as the Lord and Christ.
- Baptism – By being immersed in water we express our faith in Jesus.
- Faithfulness – We strive to live by the teachings of Jesus.
The basic responses expressing our faith are believe, repent, confess, be baptized and live faithfully. Of these, the only one needing to occur once is baptism. Baptism brings us into contact with the blood of Christ through which we find salvation.
We stand before God guilty and helpless. We cannot do anything to earn our salvation. Because of God's love for us, He offered a suitable sacrifice for our sins. This was Jesus, His Son. God requires of us that we demonstrate our acceptance of His grace (gift) by our active faith beginning with our belief, repentance and baptism. We then live faithfully according to the teachings of Jesus.