Stand Firm in Grace

Salvation is a gift of God’s grace received with the empty hands of faith which results in a life devoted to doing good. Join us to discover the amazing grace of God revealed in these verses.

Sermon Outline:

I. How Are We Saved?

II. Who Saves Us?

III. For What Purpose Are We Saved?

Sermon Discussion Questions:

1. Why do you think it was essential for our salvation to be based on God’s grace rather than our own merits? When does salvation by grace alone actually become good news for people?

2. Saving faith is more than just believing facts about Jesus in our minds. There’s a difference between intellectual agreement and true, saving trust. How can we evaluate whether our own faith is genuine rather than just intellectual assent? What’s the difference?

3. How does a proper understanding of salvation exclude all possibility of boasting?

4. We’re saved not just from something but also for something: good works. What are some ways you can be doing good as part of your normal day-to-day life?

5. If you believed in the depths of your soul that you did nothing to earn or deserve the salvation you have received, how would that change the way you see the non-Christian people around you? How would you think differently about people who appear to be “lost causes”?