SPF 167: What are the Means of Grace and How are They a Blessing?

November 19, 2020

What are the means of grace? Why are they important, and how might we be neglecting them? Today we are giving thanks for the gifts God gives us to fortify our faith and keep us firm until the end.

What are the means of grace? Why are they important, and how might we be neglecting them? Today we are giving thanks for the gifts God gives us to fortify our faith and keep us firm until the end.    Show Notes: sheprovesfaithful.com/podcast/episode167 Support the Podcast $5 a Month: patreon.com/sheprovesfaithful

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Means of Grace

2 Peter 3:17-18

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Means of grace are tools given to us by God to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. The foundational means of grace are: Scripture, Prayer, and The Sacraments (baptism and the Lord’s Supper).

The means of grace remind us of our own redemption, and communicate our redemption to the world which is at war with God and needs salvation. So the means of grace ministers to us inwardly and minsters to other outwardly.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q.88. What are the ordinary, external ways Christ uses to bring us the benefits of redemption?

A. The ordinary, external ways Christ uses to bring us the benefits of redemption are His regulations, particularly the word, sacraments, and prayer, all of which are made effective for the salvation of His chosen ones.

https://www.cambridgepres.org.uk/resources/app/type/westminster-shorter-catechism/resource/329/title/q88

The Westminster Shorter Catechism Illustrated: http://www.shortercatechism.com/resources/whitecross/wsc_wh_088.html (where the stories illustrating Question 88 came from)