The Apostles Creed
What is the difference between Knowing and Believing?
Knowing is based on provable evidence and data.
Belief is based on faith, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and faith by its very nature is belief in that which we cannot see.
What does the word "catholic" mean in the phrase "holy catholic church"?
The universal church
Discipleship means following the way of Jesus. What are things that Jesus did?
Loved people, loved outcasts and marginalized, spoke truth to power, fed people, healed people, welcomed everyone to the table.
Lutheranism is not a series of laws or doctrines but is what we call a ___
Way
A Way of Seeing
A Way of Hearing
A Way of Teaching
A Way of Following
This man was a monk in Wittenberg, Germany in the 1500s who helped start the Reformation.
This man was a civil rights leader in Georgia in the 1950s-60s who gave the "I have a Dream Speech."
Martin Luther
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the gender of God?
God is beyond gender and both men and women and non-binary people are made in the image of God.
What was the Incarnation?
God became human in Jesus.
Why do we say the Lord's Prayer every week?
It's like training wheels for prayers. It's a simple and good place to start and easy to remember so we can say it anytime, but it encapsulates everything we need for following Jesus:
Praise, kingdom of God coming, prayer for needs, forgiveness, and deliverance from evil.
How does Jesus encounter us in the cross?
Jesus finds us in the cross in our weaknesses, vulnerabilities, grief, pain, and loneliness.
Jesus embraces us in our darkness.
Jesus is victorious over the powers of evil, death, and any "ism" or system of this world that seeks to enslave us. We are free!
Say the Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
What are the three beings of God called?
And who are those three beings?
The Holy Trinity
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
What is our belief on hell?
It is empty because on the cross Jesus triumphed over the powers of sin and death and hell.
When can someone lose their salvation?
Nothing can separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus our Lord. Neither life or death nor angels or demons no anything else in all creation.
Even we cannot separate ourselves from the love of God, because we are not saved by works but through grace alone, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
What do we say "YES" to when we are baptized?
You are incorporated into the church, the body of Christ.
You are chosen, called, adopted, and born again into a covenant people.
You are forgiven and free.
You are ordained as a minister to serve and act for peace and justice on the earth.
You are marked with the cross of Christ forever.
You are given the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Name the 2 Sacraments
Baptism and Holy Communion
How does God still create today?
Inspiring us through the Holy Spirit to create beauty and the arts, care for creation, and create ways to serve and love the world and promote justice to make the world a better place.
What does the Holy Spirit do?
The action of God on earth.
Breaks down barriers, brings together different ethnicities and languages, brings justice and peace and equality to all, breaks the chains of oppression, ends slavery and racism, inspires us to create beauty and share love with the world.
And when we do not know how to pray the Holy Spirit speaks in groans which words cannot interpret.
And we are filled with the same Spirit that rose Jesus from the dead!
Why do we go to church?
Share Christ's love in community.
Share in solidarity when we suffer and grieve.
Work together to advocate for peace and justice in the world.
We can do more good together than alone!
Worship as a community as we gather, share the good news of the Gospel, share in Communion together, and go out and serve the world.
the Bible is not a inerrant packaged in propositions that we argue about. Instead it is what we call the _______?
Living Word
The Living Word breaks into our lives and shatters our old ways creating new life, new values, and new ways of living.
We are saved by _______ through ________ not by _______.
Grace
Faith
Works
How is the Trinity not just a noun, but also a verb.
(What connects the Trinity together?)
What does that inspire us to do?
The love between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit connects them in a dance of mutual relationship.
They invite the other (us) into that dance.
And then that inspires us to invite the other into our dance of shared love with God and our community.
Where is heaven?
The Bible describes the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth and Jesus redeeming creation to bring the kingdom of God here on earth.
What is prayer not?
What is prayer?
Prayer is not a vending machine or a magic genie granting us wishes. It's not magic or manipulation.
Prayer is a relationship with God where we trust in faith in God. Through prayer we become like Jesus and care for the things and people Jesus cares about so that we can be the answer to our own prayers.
We say NO to the religion of power and Yes to the Way of the Cross. What are the 5 themes of the Way of the Cross?
Submission to the will of the Father
Absolute Trust in God
Dedication to Human Liberation
Solidarity with human pain
Freedom the Human, weak, and vulnerable
Name the 10 Commandments
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not murder.
You shall not make idols.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
You shall not steal.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet.