1. “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

2. “I am the way, the truth and the life.”

3. Truth Matters

4. What we believe – how we worship
Theology - doxology
What we believe – how we worship

6. 5 SOLAS
SOLAS – ALONE (SOLO)
Scripture
Faith
Grace
Christ
Glory of God

7. SOLA SCRIPTURA Bible alone is the authority for Christians.
"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the person of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
- 2Tim 3:16-17

8. SOLA SCRIPTURA Not theological arguments: …sounds nice
…makes me feel good 
My pastor said…
My denomination believes…
I can’t understand how… 
No one else…
God told me in a dream… 
Not inclusive/tolerant 

9. SOLA SCRIPTURA
Only theological argument:
Scripture says…

10. SOLA SCRIPTURA Interpreting scripture Grammatical-historical method:
One meaning of the text, rooted in historical fact, expressed according to the rules of language. Question of reading the bible.
Literately, not literally.

11. SOLA SCRIPTURA Interpreting scripture Genre? What comes before/after?
Other scripture?
Original audience?

12. SOLA SCRIPTURA
Drive how you want.

13. SOLA SCRIPTURA Interpreting scripture Example:
Is not this the fast that I choose (Isa 58:5) Therefore fast from food.
 …to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry (6-7)

14. SOLA SCRIPTURA

15. SOLA SCRIPTURA

16. SOLA SCRIPTURA

17. SOLA SCRIPTURA Interpreting scripture Genre? What comes before/after?
Other scripture?
Original audience?

18. SOLA SCRIPTURA Interpreting Scripture Resources:
‘Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes’ (Ken Bailey)
Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible.
IVP Bible Background Commentary (Craig Keener).
After Paul left Corinth (Bruce Winter)
Roman Wives, Roman Widows

19. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

20. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

21. Sola Fide Justified by faith alone
“For by grace you have been saved through faith..”
“And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness”

22. Sola Fide Justified by faith alone
RC: Faith initiates, but we need to add works/merit
Scripture: It is faith alone.

23. Sola Gratia Justified by grace alone – divine initiative
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins…
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us… For by grace you have been saved…

24. Sola Gratia Justified by grace alone
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (Jn 6:44)
Regeneration
Faith

25. Sola Gratia Justified by grace alone
RC: Need grace – given through sacraments (things we do)
Scripture: It is by God’s gracious initiative and work alone.

26. Solus Christus Justified by through/in Christ alone
…when we were dead in our trespasses, [God] made us alive together with Christ
“…And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved [than Jesus].”Acts 4:12

27. Solo Gloria Dei To the Glory of God alone
Glory: weight, weightiness, significance
Because of who He is.
Submit to scripture because God is its author.

28. Solo Gloria Dei To the Glory of God alone
"I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Isa 43:6-7 
“So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1Cor 10:31

29. Solo Gloria Dei To the Glory of God alone Because of who He is.
Submit to scripture because God is its author.
Because of what He has done.

30. Solo Gloria Dei To the Glory of God alone
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.

31. Solo Gloria Dei To the Glory of God alone
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places… In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace… In him we have obtained an inheritance… so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory... In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit… to the praise of his glory.
Eph 1:3-14

32. 5 Solas
Application
Know your Bible, and submit to what it says.

34. 5 Solas Application Know your Bible, and submit to what it says.
Preserve the truth of the Gospel.
Live a life of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Make God central in your life.

35. May our lives be shaped by truth, and the truth of the Gospel.