The Basics of Grace
Father Mike Schmitz says salvation is unearned. It is a what from God.
Gift
The Bible says that faith without this is dead.
What are works (or actions)?
This first sacrament is described as the starting line or an "A" grade at the beginning of our faith journey
What is baptism?
What is my name?
What is Mrs. Brox?
This short word means any choice we make that breaks our relationship with God or goes against His love.
What is sin?
This five-letter word means God’s free, undeserved help and love that sparks our relationship with Him.
Grace
Fr. Mike states that true belief isn't just knowing God exists. It means giving Him your complete what?
What is trust (or obedience)?
When we fail, make mistakes, or sin, God doesn't take His gift away. He offers forgiveness through this sacrament.
What is confession or reconciliation?
This special, solemn agreement or family bond between God and humans is the framework for the whole story of salvation.
What is a Covenant?
True or False: Fr. Mike says you can do enough good deeds on your own to force God to save you.
What is False? (Salvation comes first from God's mercy, not our own muscle).
Fr. Mike warns that prayer shouldn't be treated like a "divine ATM" or a magical genie to get whatever we want, but a way to align with God's what?
What is Will?
The Council of Trent and Fr. Mike emphasize that our will isn't inert—we must freely choose to say this word to God's gift.
What is yes?
In the Gospels, Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He says no one comes to whom except through Him?
Who is the Father (or God)?
St. Paul wrote that we are saved by grace through this core Christian virtue
faith
According to Fr. Mike, salvation means being saved from being "un-Christ-like" so we can look more like whom?
What is Jesus?
Jesus paid a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we could not pay. He did this through His death and what major event?
What is The Resurrection?
This famous New Testament Apostle, who used to persecute Christians, wrote the letters to the Romans and Ephesians that Fr. Mike quotes to explain grace.
Who is Saint Paul?
Complete Fr. Mike's camp-fire analogy: Grace is the spark, faith is the wood, and these actions of love are the oxygen.
What are works (or good deeds)?
To explain how faith and works go together, Fr. Mike says faith must always work itself out in this highest theological virtue
What is love?
Fr. Mike reads from the Catechism to explain that Jesus established THIS community as a necessary home and vessel for salvation.
What is the Catholic Church?
This massive, 73-book library is divided into two main parts: the Old and New what?
What is the Testament?