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Means of Grace

Introduction

Means of grace

How to benefit from the means of grace



  • The Love of God the Father, and the grace of His only begpotten Son our Lord Jesus Chrsit, and the gift and communions of the Holy Spirit be with you all 
    • We recieved the means of grace from the church - No we need God's grace to activate this grace and make it effective 

 

  • The grace also works in the sacraments 
    • invisible grace
  • Grace works in the service

 

Where do we get grace?

  • We receive grace on a personal level and on a church level 
  • Everything that happens in the Church (storage of grace) 
  • The church has the authority to despense to us God's grace - baptism 
  • The grace of baptism - takes us to the grace of myron (temple of the holy spirit 
  • Repentance and confession - getting rid of sins 
  • No salvation outside of the church 
  • Church sacraments - graces 
  • No one can come to the sacraments without repentancee -and without faith 
  • On a personal level - God gives according to the need - my grace is suffesient to you 
  • I didn't do anything to recieve any of these graces by my role is to use them and to bring fruit 
  • Each person's response to the sacrament is different

Faith - prayer - humility (almotawade3oon yagedon ne3ma - nazar ila eteda3 amato - momtale2a ne3ma 

What is grace?




  •  Grace leads to repentance - encourages us to attain virtues