Faith Working Through Love: A Resource For United Methodist Teaching

For in Christ Jesus . . . the only thing that counts is faith working through love. --Galatians 5:6, NRSV Faith Working Through Love provides a fresh and accessible experience for readers to explore essential Christian beliefs and practices that have shaped us as Christians and as Methodists. Using a conversational question-and-answer format, the study explores the basic teachings and practices of Christian faith and the core convictions of the United Methodist tradition within the larger Christian family. The book highlights the roots of theearly Methodist movement, which offered both a vital experience of the assurance of God's love and a vigorous expression of God's love in the world. Galatians 5:6, with its affirmation of "faith working through love," articulates this twofold purpose of Christian faith: birthed and strengthened by our experience of God's love and the expression of authentic Christian faith through acts of love to God, with our fellow human beings, and with the whole of creation. Topics explored include: Faith in the Triune God; God's Creative, Sustaining, and Renewing Work; the Redeeming Work of Jesus Christ; the Transforming Work of the Holy Spirit; Theological Anthropology: Human Life before God; the Way of Salvation; the Means of Grace; the Church and Ministry: Life Together in Worship, Nurture, and Mission; the Christian Hope: God's Mercy Over All God's Works; and The United Methodist Church within the Church Universal.

• | Author: Council of Bishops of the Umc
• | Publisher: The United Methodist Publishing House
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1791026338
• | ISBN-13: 9781791026332