This week are lesson discuss something that I would assume that most of us think we can explain.
Can you explain and or describe the term faith?
What if the person you were explaining faith too ask you if there is a difference between worldly faith and spiritual faith?
Our lesson starts off telling us that we come pre-disposed to professing faith; the author of our lesson tells us that faith is standard issues in all human beings.
When you sat down in the chair in this classroom this morning, didn’t you have faith that your chair was going to support you? It never crossed your mind that there was any danger of you falling to the floor in a heap.
Of course it was possible that you were about to sit down in a defective chair; but faith made …show more content…
But in the end I have enough faith in the construction, maintenance and abilities of the flight crew to sit down in that airliner and assume the flight is going to be incident free.
The author of our lesson points out that we do not commit ourselves to Christ with the same kind of faith that we use when we sit down in a chair or walk on to an airplane.
Would you agree with the statement that spiritual faith is not native to man?
Biblical faith requires more than simply transferring our natural faith to spiritual objects.
Biblical faith is not generated by us; biblical faith is not convincing ourselves that something is true.
Biblical faith comes from only one source; biblical faith is given to us by God.
For biblical faith requires several things before we can fellowship with …show more content…
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
So even as poorly as we may feel we are a presenting the gospel message; are we not better than not hearing the message at all?
The lesson pointed out that biblical faith requires a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:4 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
There are times when the message is made available but it is rejected.
The lesson points out that it is not uncommon for people to reject the gospel message because of one or both of the following.
People can be disobedient; have you ever dealt with someone who is stubborn and refuses to obey or is just totally unwilling to be persuaded.
Then there are people we meet in life who are totally obstinate. An obstinate person loves to debate with you.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone who contradicts everything you say or is against everything you stand for regardless of the truth of what is being
Can you explain and or describe the term faith?
What if the person you were explaining faith too ask you if there is a difference between worldly faith and spiritual faith?
Our lesson starts off telling us that we come pre-disposed to professing faith; the author of our lesson tells us that faith is standard issues in all human beings.
When you sat down in the chair in this classroom this morning, didn’t you have faith that your chair was going to support you? It never crossed your mind that there was any danger of you falling to the floor in a heap.
Of course it was possible that you were about to sit down in a defective chair; but faith made …show more content…
But in the end I have enough faith in the construction, maintenance and abilities of the flight crew to sit down in that airliner and assume the flight is going to be incident free.
The author of our lesson points out that we do not commit ourselves to Christ with the same kind of faith that we use when we sit down in a chair or walk on to an airplane.
Would you agree with the statement that spiritual faith is not native to man?
Biblical faith requires more than simply transferring our natural faith to spiritual objects.
Biblical faith is not generated by us; biblical faith is not convincing ourselves that something is true.
Biblical faith comes from only one source; biblical faith is given to us by God.
For biblical faith requires several things before we can fellowship with …show more content…
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
So even as poorly as we may feel we are a presenting the gospel message; are we not better than not hearing the message at all?
The lesson pointed out that biblical faith requires a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:4 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
There are times when the message is made available but it is rejected.
The lesson points out that it is not uncommon for people to reject the gospel message because of one or both of the following.
People can be disobedient; have you ever dealt with someone who is stubborn and refuses to obey or is just totally unwilling to be persuaded.
Then there are people we meet in life who are totally obstinate. An obstinate person loves to debate with you.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone who contradicts everything you say or is against everything you stand for regardless of the truth of what is being