Coffee and Catechism

I should live in joyful expectation of the fullness of my transformation, soul and body, into the likeness of Christ. In the midst of suffering or in the face of hostility and persecution, I am sustained by the hope of a new heaven and earth, freed from Satan, evil, suffering, and death. The post E111 Q120 How should you live in light of this promise of unending life? appeared first on Amateur Ang...

I know that it will be an eternal life of joyful fellowship with our triune God, together with all his saints and angels, singing his praises and serving him in the renewed creation. The post E110 Q119 What do you know about the unending resurrected life of believers? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Because I put my hope in God’s resurrection of my body, I should honor and care for it. I should refrain from any violence, disrespect, or sin that would harm, demean, or violate either my body or the bodies of others. The post E109 Q118 How should you live as you await the resurrection of your body? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

They will be fully renewed and glorified in the image of Christ, perfected after the manner of his own resurrected and ascended body. The post E108 Q117 What do you know about the resurrected bodies of believers? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

When the risen Lord Jesus returns to judge the earth, he will raise all the dead to bodily life. The wicked will then receive eternal condemnation, and the righteous eternal life in the glory of God. The post E107 Q116 What is the resurrection of the body? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Because sin and death now corrupt this world, my body will degenerate and die. But, by the will of God, my soul will be with the Lord, and I will rise bodily from death when Jesus Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. The post E106 Q115 Why will you die? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Holy Scripture tells me that my body, though tainted by sin, was created good, bearing the image of God and endowed with great dignity. Therefore, from the moment of conception to natural death, every human body and every human life should be cared for, protected, and loved. The post E105 Q114 What does Holy Scripture tell you about your body? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

No. God’s common grace can be seen in his provision for all people. “He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45). However, he shows his saving grace by granting salvation to those who place their faith in Christ. The post E104 Q113 Does God give grace only to Christians? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

No. God wants to redeem every aspect of my life, and his grace in Christ is at work in all of it. The post E103 Q112 Is God’s grace only for your religious or spiritual life? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

No. God gives his grace freely and enables me to receive it. Everything I do for God should be in response to his love and grace made known in Christ, for “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” and “we love because he first loved us.” The post E102 Q111 Can you earn God’s grace? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

God gives me grace in Christ for the forgiveness of my sins, redemption from sin’s power, healing of sin’s effects, and growth in holiness, to my final transformation into the likeness of Christ. The post E101 Q110 For what purpose does God give you grace? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Grace is God’s undeserved gift of his love, mercy, and help, which he freely offers to us who, because of our sin, deserve only condemnation. The post E100 Q109 What is grace? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

rusting in God’s continual forgiveness, I should live in continual thanks, praise, and obedience to him; and as I have been loved and forgiven by God, so I should love and forgive those who sin against me. The post E99 Q108 How should you respond to God’s forgiveness? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

By virtue of Christ’s atoning sacrifice, in which I put my trust, God sets aside my sins, accepts me, and adopts me as his child and heir in Jesus Christ. Loving me as his child, he forgives my sins whenever I turn to him in repentance and faith. The post E98 Q107: How does God forgive your sins? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

All sin is opposed to the righteousness of God and is therefore subject to God’s holy condemnation; yet God in his mercy offers me forgiveness and salvation from sin through his Son, Jesus Christ, the only Savior. The post E97 Q106 How does God respond to human sin? (Part 2) appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

All sin is opposed to the righteousness of God and is therefore subject to God’s holy condemnation; yet God in his mercy offers me forgiveness and salvation from sin through his Son, Jesus Christ, the only Savior. The post E96 Q106 How does God respond to human sin? (Part 1) appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Sins are intentions, acts, or failures to act that arise out of my corrupted human nature and fall short of conformity to God’s revealed will. The post E95 Q105 What are sins? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

Through union with Christ, as celebrated in the sacrament of Holy Communion, the Church on earth participates with the Church in heaven in the eternal worship of God. The post E94 Q104 How are the Church on earth and the Church in heaven joined in worship? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

 I live as a member of the communion of saints through faith in Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit by gathering to worship God with my fellow Christians, by praying for and encouraging one another, and by coming to one another’s aid in times of trouble, sickness, or grief. The post E93 Q103 How do you participate in the communion of the saints? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

The communion of the saints is the fellowship of all those, in heaven and on earth, who are united in Christ as one Body, through one Spirit, in Holy Baptism. The post E92 Q102 What is the “communion of the saints”? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

“Communion” means being “one with” someone in union and unity. For Christians, it refers to the unity of the three Persons within the one Being of God, to our union with God through our union with Christ, and to our unity with one another in Christ. The post E91 Q101 What does the word “communion” mean? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

e all those in heaven and on earth who place their faith in Jesus Christ, who are set apart, holy to God in Christ, and transformed by his grace. The post E90 Q100 Who are the saints? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

An apostle is one who is sent. The Church is called “apostolic” because it holds the faith of the first apostles sent by Christ. In continuity with them, the Church is likewise sent by Christ to proclaim the Gospel and to make disciples throughout the whole world. The post E89 Q99 Why is the Church called “apostolic”? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

The Church is called “catholic” (“according to the whole”) because it keeps the whole faith it has received from the Lord, in continuity with the whole Church, in all times and places. The post E88 Q98 Why is the Church called “catholic”? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .

The Church is holy because the Holy Spirit dwells in it and sanctifies its members, setting them apart to God in Christ and calling them to moral and spiritual holiness of life. The post E87 Q97 Why is the Church called “holy”? appeared first on Amateur Anglican .