Exam #1 Flashcards
What is the one true sacrament?
Christ
What is sacramental living?
Christ living in and through us
Reason’ Booth stopped sacraments:
- new converts misunderstood spiritual meaning – became ritual
- Salvation is not through a sacrament
- Churches had criteria
- Administration training
- Alcoholics
Which group influenced Booth to stop sacraments?
Quakers.
OT Prophets who fought against injustice:
Amos, Malachi
TSA began with a desire to …
meet God in great simplicity.
Hindrances to stopping sacraments:
- Lose converts to other churches
- Discrimination from other churches
- Continually explaining our position
- Being a minority
What is at the center of TSA worship?
Christ’s atoning sacrifice.
What was the first act of Jesus’ ministry?
His Baptism
He who had no sin…
took his place among those who had no righteousness.
In Jesus’ act of baptism, He …
took his place among the sinners of the world.
(Baptism) There was no other way to …
fulfill all righteousness.
Jesus’ baptism identified Him with …
sinners.
Jesus’ baptism was a symbol of:
His death and resurrection
Jesus’ baptism is a pre…
prefigurement of Christian baptism
Jesus’ supreme identification with sinners was …
taking their sin upon Himself.
Baptism =
– Sacramental rite which admits someone into the Christian Church
- represents a believer’s participation in death and resurrection with Christ.
- Cleansing from sin
Sacrament =
- Mystery
- Symbolic (the way a believer partakes in mystery of Christ in a symbolic way)
- Sacred (Augustine: the sign of a very sacred thing)
- Visible sign of invisible Grace (Council of Trent)
Transubstantiation =
bread actually becomes body, etc.
Consubstantiation =
both bread and body at same time; coexist
“with substance” or “like substance”
Passover =
deliverance, promise of messiah, Future deliverance from bondage
Glossalalia =
tongue + to speak.
Pneumatika =
Spiritual phenomena; true and false manifestation of gifts
Male Prophet (Hebrew) =
naw-bee
Female Prophet (Hebrew) =
ned-ee-yah
Theophany =
God sighting
Sunergo =
companion in work (pricscilla, Euodia, Syntyche)
Kopiao =
co-laborers (Mary, Tryphena &Tryphosa, Persis)
Diakonos =
Deacon or Minister (Phebe, Junia)
Prostemi =
To stand before or over
Lalein =
to speak
Sacrementum =
setting something apart as holy
Charismata =
spiritual gifts, supernatural graces
Charis =
grace
A spiritual gift is (Wagner)
“a special attribute given by the HS to every member of the Body of Christ according to God’s grace for use within the context of the body” (Wagner)
Eucharist =
Thanksgiving