Lesson One What is Confirmation?

CONFIRMATION means STRENGTHENING

Hebrews 5:12-14 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

Through our confirmation classes We want to be strengthened

Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"

Through our confirmation classes We want to be strengthened in our Christian faith

Romans 7:18-25 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Through our confirmation classes We want to be strengthened in our Christian faith and in our Christian life

Trusting or relying on Jesus The Christian Faith What is it? Trusting or relying on Jesus

2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The Christian Faith Is revealed to us as Bible teachings

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The Christian Faith Is revealed to us as Bible teaching stresses the way of salvation (delivers from sin and death)

John 14:6 Acts 4:12 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

The Christian Faith Is revealed to us as Bible teachings stresses the way of salvation (delivers from sin and death) is centered in Jesus Christ as the only Savior

The Christian Life What is it? Living for Jesus

Psalm 119:11 Psalm 119:105 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

The Christian Life Is also revealed as Bible teachings

Ephesians 2:8-9 Luke 17:12-19 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan.

The Christian Life Is also revealed as Bible teachings is lived out of thankfulness to Jesus our Savior

John 14:15 If you love me, you will obey what I command.

The Christian Life is also revealed as Bible teachings is lived out of thankfulness to Jesus our Savior is expressed by all Christians

The Christian Life Romans 1:16 Bible study of God’s love and salvation Confirming of living for Jesus out of thankfulness Psalm 1 Confirming of trust and faith in Jesus Romans 10:17; Matt. 7:24-27

The Confirmation Ceremony What is it all about? It publicly announces that we have been strengthened (confirmed) in our Christian faith and life. It is a time for making vows (solemn promises) to remain faithful to Jesus Christ.