REVIEW FOR MS 406 SPIRITUAL LIFE MID-TERM:
I. 25% True/False from lecture:
Review the contents of this outline and make sure you have an understanding of these main points:
Every saint has started the journey Every saint will show up at the finish line! Not all saints travel the same distance or at the same speed! There are “speed bumps” on the road to spiritual growth Spiritual Pilgrimage Chart
God designed us to be like Him
God designed us in His own image and likeness Sin defaced the image of God in humanity The image of God is restored through Christ
God demands that we be like Him in Holiness Why I ought to be like my Father: The necessity for holiness How can I be holy like my Father? The nature of holiness
Our dilemma: We are born like Adam We were alienated from God We were enslaved to our appetites We conformed to our culture We were pawns to the prince of evil Living on death row
Our deliverance: We Have New life in Christ The dead has come to life I have been liberated by Christ! I owe it all to grace I am a totally new creation Adam died but his legacy lives on in me I serve a new master I may, but I no longer must, surrender to the old master
Our new life: United with Christ Roots of our new relationship with Christ What it means to be united with Christ Remember the class lecture regarding the doctrine of identification.
Living free: How we are Delivered from Sin’s Grip? Saints and sinners: Spiritual people groups in Scripture How sinners become saints: Justification in Romans 5 How saints are delivered from sin’s grip: Sanctification in Romans 6-8
Paul’s argument in Romans 6 First issue: Does grace give Christians a license to sin? Three steps to breaking free from sin’s grip Second issue: Does freedom from the law give Christians a license to sin?
Paul’s argument in Romans 7 First issue: What is the role of law in the believer’s life? Second issue: What is the nature of the law (is it sin)? Third issue: What is the effect of the law on the believer?
Paul’s argument in Romans 8: Victory!
II. 25% Comprehensive Summary in paragraph form of B. B. Warfield’s Religious Life of the Theological Student.
[Please note: several in last class did not read this pamphlet; it cost them an A in the course because they automatically made a “C” on this mid-term].
III. 50% Comprehensive summaries over every chapter of J. P. Moreland’s Love God with All Your Mind.
I will ask for you to answer two out of four questions which I will choose from the list below. So that means out of the following questions I will place four of them on the exam. You will then be able to choose two out of the four that I take from the following list to answer. These answers must be comprehensive. Two-four paragraphs should be adequate to answer these questions (the key in your summary is comprehensiveness):
A. Summarize the content of chapter 1: How have we lost the Christian mind and why must we recover it?
B. Summarize the content of chapter 2: Sketch a biblical portrait of the life of the mind?
C. Summarize the content of chapter 3: What is mind’s role in spiritual transformation?
D. Summarize the content of chapter 4: How can you harass the Hobgoblins of the Christian mind? (Also consider…What does that mean to harass the hobgoblins of the Christian mind?). E. Summarize the content of chapter 5: How can you clear the cobwebs from my mental attic?
F. Summarize e content of chapter 6: What does evangelism and the Christian mind in this chapter?
G. Summarize the content of chapter 7: What does he mean by apologetic reasoning and the Christian mind? What does that look like?
H. Summarize the content of chapter 8. What role does worship and fellowship play in the Christian mind? Why is Moreland connecting these things together?
I. Summarize the content of chapter 9. What does he mean by vocation and an integrated Christian worldview? How is integration possible?
J. Summarize the content of chapter 10. What does it mean and how can we recapture the intellectual life in the church?
Bonus:
1. I will ask bonus questions from my lecture.
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