Intro to Theology

Caleb Ingrum

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

*CHURCH UPDATES: Digital and paper connect Card

DECLARATION:

Ephesians 2:20–22 (ESV)

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

SVCC is built by God, upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone.

We are joined together by union with Christ, we are growing, and we are a dwelling place of God by his Spirit.

Prayer for...

INTRODUCTION:

Review:

WHY?…

TODAY:

Defined: “Theology commonly refers to the ordered, systematic study or interpretation of the Christian faith and experience of God based on God’s divine self-revelation. Theology also seeks to apply these truths to the full breadth of human experience and thought.” (Grenz, 113)

Theology is God talk (i.e. What we believe > what speak about God > how we live our lives )

Opening Scripture:

John 20:30–31 NLT

30 The disciples saw Jesus do many other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IS...

From the perspective of the Christian faith

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

From within the Christian Church

Galatians 3:1–5 ESV

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—

For the Christian Church

John 5:39–40 ESV

39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

About the Christian faith

Ephesians 4:4–6 ESV

4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Historic Creeds and Confessions Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth

And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary

Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell

The third day he rose again from the dead

He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty

From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead

I believe in the Holy Ghost

I believe a holy catholic church; the communion of saints

The forgiveness of sins

The resurrection of the body

And the life everlasting. Amen.

Conclusion/Reflection:

Karl Barth was once asked to sum up in a few words all he had written in the field of theology. This was his summary: “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

Sources:

Barth, Karl. The Faith of the Church: A Commentary on the Apostle’s Creed according to Calvin’s Catechism. Edited by Jean-Louis Leuba. Translated by Gabriel Vahanian. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006.

Ensminger, Sven. Karl Barth’s Theology as a Resource for a Christian Theology of Religions. Edited by John Webster, Ian A. McFarland, and Ivor Davidson. Vol. 28. T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Green, Michael P., ed. Illustrations for Biblical Preaching: Over 1500 Sermon Illustrations Arranged by Topic and Indexed Exhaustively. Revised edition of: The expositor’s illustration file. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989.

Grenz, Stanley, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Historic Creeds and Confessions. Electronic ed. Oak Harbor: Lexham Press, 1997.

OTHER:

New Dictionary of Theology Theology

THEOLOGY is derived from the Gk. theologia, compounded of two words, meaning basically an account of, or discourse about, gods or God.

New Dictionary of Theology Dogma

In the Christian church ‘dogma’ became teaching which was considered authoritative. Throughout the first three centuries, the Lat. and Gk. writers were inclined to call everything related to faith ‘dogma’. Chrysostom used the word specifically for those truths revealed by Christ and above reason. Thomas Aquinas and the scholastics did not often use the term and preferred to speak of the articles of faith.

From the Reformation onwards, the word came to designate those articles of faith which the church officially formulated as the truth which had been revealed. It reflected therefore a common recognition by the Reformed and Roman churches that dogmatic formulation is an activity of the church, often arising out of theological controversy or the need to clarify the faith to be embraced.

James 3:1–12 ESV

1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

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