# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S282
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II. THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS­­—COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS

Faith:
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Justifying faith is faith in Christ.

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Righteousness is imputed to individuals.

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Individuals can be justified only through faith.

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Faith comes by hearing ... The Word of Christ.

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Faith:
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THE APPROPRIATION OF
CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS (cont.)

Phil. 3:8–10
Acts 10:43 and Rom. 5:1–2
John 1:12 and Gal. 3:22
Rom. 10:17

THE APPROPRIATION OF
CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS (cont.)

Faith:

Faith is the ear that hears God’s promise, the hand that
receives God’s gift.

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Justifying faith is not my good work, but God’s.

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Faith bears fruit — but that’s not why it justifies .

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I’m not justified because I’m contrite. (jargon)
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Eph. 2:8–10

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Faith:
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THE APPROPRIATION OF
CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS (cont.)

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Justification by anything other than faith dishonors Christ
and obscures the Gospel.
– Gal. 2:21 and 5:4

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Eph. 2:8–9

But faith inevitably bears fruit, that is, good works.

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Faith isn’t self-chosen, but the Holy Spirit’s gift.

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Justification is through faith, without works.
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Luke 8:8; Rom. 4:16 and 10:17
Forgiveness “cannot be received in any other way than by faith alone,
since a promise cannot be received in any other way than by faith
alone.” Ap IV, 84
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Faith, through which we are justified, is a gift.
– John 6:44; Rom. 11:6; and Phil. 1:29

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THE APPROPRIATION OF
CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS (cont.)

1 Cor. 6:11 and 12:3
John 3:16; Rom. 4:5
Rom. 3:28
Acts 13:38–39; Eph. 2:8–9

Unbelief:

THE REJECTION OF CHRIST’S
RIGHTEOUSNESS

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The world is justified in Christ, the impenitent stand
condemned.

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Faith doesn’t cause justification, but without faith we are
lost since unbelief rejects the gift.

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Luke 18:10–14

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John 3:36

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2 Tim. 2:11–13