845 Equip
New City Catechism
What is the Church?
July 1, 2018 • Kyle Meyers
Q: What is the Church? A: God chooses and preserves for himself a community elected for eternal life and united by faith, who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together. God sends out this community to proclaim the gospel and prefigure Christ’s kingdom by the quality of their life together and their love for one another.
What does Christ's resurrection mean for us?
July 15, 2018 • Micah Nims
Q: What does Christ's resurrection mean for us? A: Christ triumphed over sin and death by being physically resurrected, so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come. Just as we will one day be resurrected, so this world will one day be restored. But those who do not trust in Christ will be raised to everlasting death.
Where is Christ Now?
July 8, 2018 • Michael Sandberg
Question 49 Q: Where is Christ now? A: Christ rose bodily from the grave on the third day after His death and is seated at the right hand of the Father, ruling His kingdom and interceding for us, until He returns to judge and renew the whole world.
What are the sacraments?
June 24, 2018 • Ryan Beardsley
What are the sacraments? How do baptism and the Lord's Table both portray and proclaim the gospel message? God has given these means of grace to the church as a conduit of life and blessing individually and corporately. Pastor Ryan unpacks their centrality to gospel community in this session of 845 Equip.
Prayer
May 27, 2018 • Ben Sansburn
Prayer is the dynamic conversation where our lives and our God meet. There are all kinds of things that could be said about prayer, but talking about a life of prayer must begin with understanding what it means to pray to "Our Father in Heaven." In this 845 Equip teaching, Pastor Ben address the topic of prayer as we cover four questions in the New City Catechism together.
Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
May 20, 2018 • Isaac McPhee
Question 35 Q: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from? A: All the gifts we receive from Christ we receive through the Holy Spirit, including faith itself. Question 36 Q: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit? A: That he is God, coeternal with the Father and the Son, and that God grants him irrevocably to all who believe. Question 37 Q: How does the Holy Spirit help us? A: The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us spiritual gifts and the desire to obey God; and he enables us to pray and to understand God's Word.
What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?
March 25, 2018 • Ryan Beardsley
Q: What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith? A: At the day of judgment they will receive the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them. They will be cast out from the favorable presence of God, into hell, to be justly and grievously punished, forever.
Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?
March 18, 2018 • Ben Sansburn
Q: Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ? A: No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith. Nevertheless God in his mercy demonstrates common grace even to those who are not elect, by restraining the effects of sin and enabling works of culture for human well-being.
Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?
March 4, 2018 • Josh Forrester
Q: Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven? A: Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God graciously imputes Christ’s righteousness to us as if it were our own and will remember our sins no more.
Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
March 25, 2018 • Michael Sandberg
Q: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? A: Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.
Why must the Redeemer be truly God?
February 18, 2018 • Micah Nims
Q: Why must the Redeemer be truly God? A: That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective; and also that he would be able to bear the righteous anger of God against sin and yet overcome death.
What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
February 11, 2018 • Blake Bowen
Q: What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God? A: One who is truly human and also truly God. Q: Why must the Redeemer be truly human? A: That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin; and also that he might sympathize with our weaknesses.