Topic: The Blessings of Justification Text: Romans 5:1-11 Memory verse: Rom 5:1 Introduction In the first three chapters of Romans, Paul shows how the whole world may be held accountable to God (3:19) because of sin. This leads to the fundamental question: if sin is universal, how can anyone be righteous before God? The answer to this question is that…
Topic: Justification Explained using the example of Abraham Text: Romans 4:1-25 Memory verse: Rom 4:25 Introduction From the last week lesson on Romans 3:21-31, the Good News of justification by faith was introduced and explained. Its related terms of sanctification, redemption and propitiation were further introduced. In Rom 4 & 5, the theme of justification is given a detailed explanation. Today’s…
Topic: Introducing the Good News of Justification Faith Text: 3:21-31 Introduction Having established the need for a Saviour in the previous section, Paul in Rom 3:21-29 explains his initial statement that salvation is through Christ faith alone. The key term in this passage is therefore Justification. The other related words that are helpful in our understanding of…
Topic: The Universal Condition of Humankind Text: Romans 3:1-20 Introduction It is obvious from our previous studies that Paul has introduced the sinful condition of Gentiles in chapter 1 and in Chapter 2 he talked about the sin of the Jews as well. In Romans 3, Paul then brings the two together to say that the whole world is under…
Topic: Divine principles of judgment that prove the Jew is equally condemned with the Gentile Text: Romans 2:12-29 Introduction In the previous lesson, we studied that the Jews, in the view of Paul, are equally condemned as sinners before God. We also learnt about two main divine principles of judgment that prove that the Jews are equally condemned with the Gentile….
Topic: Describing the sins of the Jews – Divine principles of judgment that prove that the Jews are equally condemned with the Gentiles Text: Romans 2:1-11 Introduction In the last week lesson, the universal sinfulness of humankind was introduced studying the sins of the Gentile world. In today’s lesson, Paul continues the subject turning his attention on the…
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Topic: Describing the sins of the Gentile world – Introducing the universal sin problem that Jesus came to solve Text: 1:18-32 Introduction From last week’s lesson, we learnt about the meaning of the Gospel and some reasons why we are not to be ashamed of it. It is common to hear, especially as we celebrate Easter, that Jesus is the…
Refusing to be ashamed of the Gospel: Learning from Paul Text: Romans 1:14-17 Memory Verse: Romans 1:16 Introduction In last week lesson, we attempted to explain what the Gospel mean. It was pointed out that in simple terms, Gospel means the Good News. It is the message that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again, and now…
Introduction I think, there is no time in the history of the Church that the Gospel has undergone so many reinterpretations and different emphases than this era. The word Gospel has been interpreted and used in different contexts. For example, to those going through fear of witchcraft in Africa, message of deliverance is their gospel. To others who are…
Introducing Paul and his Gospel in the Letter to the Romans (Romans 1:1-17) From last week’s studies, we sought to introduce the letter to Romans. It was established that Romans is one of the most important books of the New Testament both theologically and in the history of the Church as we saw from the ministries of Luther, Wesley and…
Vision The vision of Amazing Grace Baptist Church is to be a Christ-centered fellowship of believers who confess faith in God’s grace revealed in Jesus Christ, committed to the proclamation of the Gospel to all nations, the making of disciples, and the offering of Spirit-filled worship through which persons encounter the presence of God and experience fullness of life (Matthew…
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By Rev. Dr John Kwasi Fosu Head Pastor, Amazing Grace Baptist Church, Hamburg Introduction If there is a birth that needs to be celebrated, then what comes to mind is the birth of the one man, Jesus Christ who has eternally changed and positively affected the course of history. The worth and diverse influences of Christ in the life of…
The Blessings of Forgiveness By Rev. John Kwasi Fosu Been hurt others cannot be avoided. This is because our relational human nature, we have different backgrounds and personality types. And this makes it difficult to please each other. There is a saying in Akan that “edua a eben na etwi.” Since we cannot escape from been hurt by…
