The Protestant Reformation was based on 5 principles, called the 5 suns, in this series we will study the meaning of each one, we will continue today with the ‘Sola Gratia’, or ‘Only Grace’:
What sweetness does this sound that saved a son of a like me?!”Wonderful grace of our beloved Lord, grace that exceeds our sin and guilt. “”Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sins, how should my tongue describe it, where should my praise begin?”
- Do Christians like to sing God’s saving grace?And rightly so.
- John tells us that from Jesus we have all received from his fulness and grace over grace (John 1:16).
- Many of the Letters of the New Testament begin and end with the authors expressing their desire that Jesus’ grace be with his people.
- The last words of the Bible are: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be upon all.
- Amen? (Revelation 22).
- : 21).
Reformers understood the importance of God’s grace for biblical teaching on salvation. In fact, one of the mottos that came to define the teaching of the Reformation was erasola gratia, which in Latin means “only by grace”. Christians are saved only by the grace of God.
Among Protestants, there is a well-known misunderstanding and distortion of the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching of grace. It is sometimes said: “Rome teaches that we are saved by works, but Protestants teach that we are saved by grace. “, although common, is a slander against the Roman Catholic Church. Rome does not teach that someone is saved by works outside of God’s grace. It actually teaches that a person is saved by the grace of God.
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This article is part of the November 2012 edition of Tabletalk magazine.
Translation: Isabela Siqueira. Revision: Renata do Esperito Santo. © 2013 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinistryFiel. com. br. Original: Sola Gratia?5 Series soles (2/5).
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