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The featured studies
The studies in The Life of Grace, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
The Life of Grace holds 21 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 20 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 1 study asks why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
20 studies, 0 as cards, 20 in the register
The register: 20 studies of this kind
- Bearing One Another's BurdensGalatians closes its argument for freedom with the family duties of the free: restore the overtaken brother gently, and bear one another's burdens, which fulfils the law of Christ.
- Born AgainScripture never describes salvation as repair work.
- Food Offered to IdolsCorinth asked whether a believer may eat meat that had been offered to an idol, and Paul answers across chapters 8, 9 and 10.
- Made HolyHoliness in the New Testament is a fact about you, a process happening to you, and a command aimed at you: all three, in the same letters, often on the same page.
- Marriage and the Household
- Partakers of the Divine Nature
- Put Off, Put OnEphesians 4:20-32 and Colossians 3:1-17 describe holiness as changing clothes: put off the old man, be renewed, put on the new.
- Ready to Give an AnswerPeter tells suffering believers to sanctify Christ as Lord in their hearts, and always be ready to give a reasoned defense for the hope they hold, but never apart from gentleness, respect, and a clear conscience.
- Saved by Grace Through Faith
- Shepherd the FlockIn 1 Peter 5:1-4 Peter, calling himself a fellow-elder rather than an apostle, charges church elders to shepherd God's flock willingly and without profit, never lording authority over the people in their charge, but leading by example until the chief Shepherd appears.
- Suffering as a Christian
- The Governing AuthoritiesRomans 13:1-7 grounds civil government itself in God's ordaining, names the ruler's sword and a Christian's conscience in the same breath, and calls for tribute, custom, fear, and honor rendered where due.
- The Grace of Giving2 Corinthians 8-9 is Paul's own argument for the Jerusalem collection, built on grace rather than command.
- The Greetings of RomansRomans 16 is the most personal chapter Paul wrote: twenty-six people greeted by name in a city he had never visited, and eight more sending greetings from Corinth.
- The Living SacrificeRomans 12:1-2 is the hinge of the letter.
- The New Creation
- The New Heart and the New Spirit
- The Weak and the StrongRomans 14:1-15:13 is Paul's rule for a church split over meats and days: receive the brother whose conscience differs, because he is the servant of Christ and the brother for whom Christ died.
- Unequally YokedPaul commands believers not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, asks five questions that admit no answer, and grounds the command in what believers are: a temple of the living God.
- Whose Money Is ItScripture answers the ownership question first: everything belongs to God, and people are managers of what He hands them.
Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.
1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register
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