Catechism Question 52: What hope does everlasting life hold for us?

New City Catechism

As we finish a year of learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, April 18th. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 52: What hope does everlasting life hold for us?

Kids response: That we will live with and enjoy God forever in the new heaven and the new earth, where we will be forever freed from all sin in a renewed, restored creation.

Full response: It reminds us that this present fallen world is not all there is; soon we will live with and enjoy God forever in the new city, in the new heaven and the new earth, where we will be fully and forever freed from all sin and will inhabit renewed, resurrection bodies in a renewed, restored creation.

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Catechism Question 51: Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension?

New City Catechism

As we continue learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, April 11th. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 51: Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension?

Kids response: Christ is now advocating for us in the presence of his Father and also sends us his Spirit.

Full response: Christ physically ascended on our behalf, just as he came down to earth physically on our account, and he is now advocating for us in the presence of his Father, preparing a place for us, and also sends us his Spirit.

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Catechism Question 50: What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?

New City Catechism

As we continue learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, April 4th. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 50: What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?

Kids response: Christ triumphed over sin and death so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come.

Full response: Christ triumphed over sin and death by being physically resurrected, so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come. Just as we will one day be resurrected, so this world will one day be restored. But those who do not trust in Christ will be raised to everlasting death.

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Catechism Question 49: Where is Christ now?

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As we continue learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, March 28th. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 49: Where is Christ now?

Kids response: Christ rose bodily from the grave on the third day after his death and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

Full response: Christ rose bodily from the grave on the third day after his death and is seated at the right hand of the Father, ruling his kingdom and interceding for us, until he returns to judge and renew the whole world.

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Catechism Question 48: What is the Church?

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As we continue learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, March 21st. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 48: What is the Church?

Kids response: A community elected for eternal life and united by faith, who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together.

Full response: God chooses and preserves for himself a community elected for eternal life and united by faith, who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together. God sends out this community to proclaim the gospel and prefigure Christ’s kingdom by the quality of their life together and their love for one another.

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Catechism Question 47: Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?

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As we continue learning in the New City Catechism, here’s the question for Sunday, March 14th. Read, listen, and meditate on this truth for gospel living, as we follow Jesus together.

Question 47: Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?

Kids response: No, Christ died once for all.

Full response: No, Christ died once for all. The Lord’s Supper is a covenant meal celebrating Christ’s atoning work; as it is also a means of strengthening our faith as we look to him, and a foretaste of the future feast. But those who take partake with unrepentant hearts eat and drink judgment on themselves.

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