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Lesson 3: The Church Is a Sign of God’s Love
The Church seeks to gather all persons together for the sake of their salvation and to be part of God’s Kingdom as one people, one Body of Christ.
The Church seeks to gather all persons together for the sake of their salvation and to be part of God’s Kingdom as one people, one Body of Christ.
Evidence from inside and outside the Bible points towards Jesus being the Son of God.
Jesus chose St. Peter to lead the Church, and He gave St. Peter the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.
God intentionally and deliberately created each one of us.
We study the history of the Church so that we can learn about our identity as Christians, why we are who we are, and to inform our future, built upon the successes, wisdom, and traditions of the past.
Saints Peter, Paul, Stephen, and more bore a bold witness for Christ in this era.
Jesus promises us that the forces of evil led by Satan and his demons will not be victorious against the Church.
The Incarnation is a dogma of the Church that says that the Son of God assumed a human nature in the Person of Jesus Christ.
God chose a people, the people of Israel descended from Abraham, to reveal Himself to and task with sharing His love and plan of salvation with the entire world.
God worked many signs and wonders through Moses to prove to the Egyptians and the Israelites that He is the one true God.
God called Moses and gave him the mission of freeing the Israelites from slavery, even though Moses was imperfect.
The sacrificial lamb was a sign of the Passover that saved the Israelites from the Angel of Death.
Without faithful leadership and faith in God the people of God continually fall into temptation, sin, and idol worship, and chaos reigns.
God entered into a covenant with David that would be fulfilled by Jesus in the New Covenant.