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A Summary of Christian Doctrine WSC #3 and #4
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
A Summary of Christian Doctrine
What is the Bible all about? Why do we read it and hear a sermon about it every week? The Bible is the most reliable source for information about God and His will for our lives.
While we can learn much about God from the majesty and glory of the Creation, these things are revealed most clearly and reliably in Holy Scripture. While they bear a clear and indelible witness to their creator, they point only generally to the grace of God. For this we must read and study God’s special revelation. They reveal first the promise of God’s grace, later the elements and aspects of God Grace, and finally, the person of God’s, the Lord Jesus Christ.
What is God like? Can we trust what He says? Does he know what He’s doing? Much of our faith and the trust we have in God is rooted in our knowledge of who He is. His character is the basis for salvation. Forever, He will be God and we will be his creatures. Worship Him!
Q. 3. What do the scriptures principally teach?
A. The scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
Q. 4. What is God?
A. God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
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A Summary of Christian Doctrine WSC #1 and #2
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
A Summary of Christian Doctrine
Throughout the coming year, we will be including the questions and answers from the Westminster Shorter Catechism in our weekly bulletin. You might consider putting some of these to memory. They are succinct and helpful summaries of Christian truth.
Today’s QAs deal with the basics of our existence. What is our purpose in life? Why were we created? And why are we here?
The answer comes back to us in simplicity and beauty. “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.” In short, our over-arching goal in life should be to learn, know and worship the One True God… through His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
And how, pray tell, can we learn to know and worship God a right? How else, but by the very revelation He has given of himself, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments?
Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
A. The word of God, which is contained in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
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Verse for Today – Isaiah 1:18
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“ Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.”
Read all of Isaiah 1
Beautiful words. Just think an invitation from Almighty God to draw near and be cleansed from sin. While this verse by itself is remarkable on this level, what makes it even more so is the solemn and sorry situation in which He found his people Israel. The chapter begins with what amounts to a dirge or lamentation:
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the LORD has spoken:
“ I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;
3 The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s crib;
But Israel does not know,
My people do not consider.
4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people laden with iniquity,
A brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the LORD,”
And still the Lord calls them (and us) hear and heed His words. Words that then and now come promise and warning:
19 “If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
20 But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
You shall eat the good of the land;
20 But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
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