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Prayer is communication with God and can take different forms, such as worship, intercession, thanksgiving or listening. God promises to answer prayers that are in accordance with his will, and the closer one comes to God, the more one gets to know his will and learns what to pray for. The Holy Spirit is there to help the praying person …
Discipleship means giving oneself fully to the Lord and striving to follow and imitate Jesus by sanctifying oneself from sin with the help of the Holy Spirit, studying the Bible, praying and practicing what Jesus instructed all his disciples to do. Active discipleship has its natural starting point in the church, but should also be worked on individually. Discipleship can …
Before a person is saved, he is “in Adam”, but by believing in Jesus and confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord, he enters the kingdom of God and is “in Christ”. This means, on the one hand, that one comes to know Jesus by sharing in both his resurrection and suffering, but also that one is under the Lordship of …
Faith is man’s response to God’s revelation. Faith means trusting in God, being convinced that he exists and trusting in his salvation and care. To believe in God is to be like an infant lying safely in its mother’s arms, trusting God completely and depending on him. In Jesus Christ, God has revealed himself, and whoever believes in him has …
Greek has four different words that we all translate to “love” in English: Agape: God’s eternal, selfless and self-giving love. Fileo: The love you feel for your relatives and friends. Storge: The love you naturally feel for your close family. Eros: The selfish, emotional, and sexual love. God is agape-love at its core; he loves selflessly, unconditionally and gives himself …
A covenant, also known as a “testament”, which is the Latin word for covenant, is an agreement between two or more parties that is often confirmed by a promise, a sacrifice, and a meal. Those who enter into covenant with each other promise to uphold the agreement and accept the consequences of breaking the covenant. In biblical times, a king …
God lovingly created man in His image, but man sinned and walked away from God. Ever since the Fall, sin has destroyed man and separated humanity from God. With Jesus’ death on the cross and our faith in Jesus, God gives us undeserved grace by forgiving us our sins, but also transforming us from sinners to saints, so that we …
Righteousness means living rightly and holily before God, and is the opposite of ungodliness, i.e., living wrongly and sinfully before God. The only one who is fully righteous is God himself, and we humans need to learn from Jesus how to live righteously. However, it is impossible for a person to live completely righteously because we are tempted by sin …
Because of sin, every man has lost his relationship with God, his eternal life, and has also destroyed and disfigured himself and his environment. But God loved the world so much that he sent his Son to offer salvation to all people by dying on the cross of Calvary. Jesus sacrificed himself and shed his own sinless blood to atone …
Repentance is an inner change that leads to an outer change, i.e., recognizing one’s sin, repenting wholeheartedly, and stop doing what is wrong. When God considers that sin has gone too far, he may warn that judgment is coming, but at the same time he gives time for repentance before the judgment is carried out. At the end of time, …