From Discipleship Weekly
(a publication of the Presbyterian Church of Islip)
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A Word from Our Sponsor
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. "How narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." -- Matthew 7:13-14 The Heidelberg Catechism: Part 2- Of Man's Redemption Week 13 Of God the Son 33. Q. Why is he called God's only-begotten Son, since we also are God's children? A. Because Christ alone is God's own eternal Son, whereas we are accepted for his sake as children of God by grace. [John 1:1-3,12,14,18; 3:16;
Rom. 8:14-17, 32;
Gal. 4:6;
Eph. 1:5-6;
Heb. 1;
I John 4:9]
34. Q. Why do you call him Our Lord? A. Because, not with gold or silver but at the cost of his blood, he has ransomed us body and soul from sin and all the domination of the devil, and has bought us for his very own. [I Cor. 6:20;
Col. 1:13-14;
I Tim. 2:5-6;
Heb. 2:14-15;
I Peter 1:18-19]
Suggestions for discussion and review:
"All religions are basically the same since they all teach the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man." "There are many spiritual paths up the mountain to heaven. All of them will get us to the top, so it doesn't matter which one you take." "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Which of these statements best expresses today's Catechism? How would you answer the other statements according to what we've learned from the Catechism and Scriptures so far? Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. -- John Stott |