They Will Know We are Christians 2024 Overview 1.7.2024 BtP
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The Question:
The Question:
What are behaviors, allegiances, or identity markers that set us aside as disciples? What sets the Church apart?
What are behaviors, allegiances, or identity markers that set us aside as disciples? What sets the Church apart?
Purpose: We need to be reminded of who we are expected to be in Christ, amid conflicting and confused conceptions, particularly those imposed on us by those who leverage Christian faith for their own ends rather that the Kingdom of God.
Purpose: We need to be reminded of who we are expected to be in Christ, amid conflicting and confused conceptions, particularly those imposed on us by those who leverage Christian faith for their own ends rather that the Kingdom of God.
Theme Scriptures:
Theme Scriptures:
The following scriptures provide broad structure for this study. These (and other passages) remind us that saving faith is a matter of both
The following scriptures provide broad structure for this study. These (and other passages) remind us that saving faith is a matter of both
right belief
right belief
and
right action.
right action.
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Biblical belief without Biblical action can lead to antinomianism or gnosticism.
Biblical belief without Biblical action can lead to antinomianism or gnosticism.
Biblical action without Biblical belief can lead to legalism.
Biblical action without Biblical belief can lead to legalism.
Objectives
Objectives
Understand the Biblical Basis for correct doctrinal expectations. for being understood as “Christian”.
Understand the Biblical Basis for correct doctrinal expectations. for being understood as “Christian”.
Recognize Biblical standards of Christian conduct.
Recognize Biblical standards of Christian conduct.
Identify counterfeit expectations foisted on the Church by society and culture.
Identify counterfeit expectations foisted on the Church by society and culture.
Indicate the scriptural basis for Biblical institutions, actions, and disciplines.
Indicate the scriptural basis for Biblical institutions, actions, and disciplines.
Differentiate between roles (individual and particular) and goals (universal and general) and how they are distributed among believers.
Differentiate between roles (individual and particular) and goals (universal and general) and how they are distributed among believers.
Negotiate the delicate balance between liberty in Christ and obedience to Christ.
Negotiate the delicate balance between liberty in Christ and obedience to Christ.