The Five Solas: Sola Fide
God has offered a free pardon for sin which can only be apprehended by faith. Good works can’t save us, but if our faith is real, they won’t be absent either.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR SHEPHERD GROUPS
- What makes it difficult for people to embrace the reality that faith is necessary to apprehend salvation and not works?
- Discuss the idea that “being good” in the realm of this world although important, is different for the measure of being good for salvation. How are these things different?
- How are followers of Jesus able to keep those two realities clear in our lives?
- We said that good works do not gain us salvation but should be the outgrowth of it. What should the fruit of salvation look like?
- If we’re being honest, we don’t always feel like “living it out” the way we could. What should be the proper motivation for living out our salvation in good works?
- As a follower of Jesus Christ, how can we avoid a sense of pressure to simply be good?