Author Topic: Wesleyan Theology (Read 2641 times)

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The Atonement

We believe that when Jesus offered himself, once and for all, through His sufferings and death on the cross, He provided the perfect redemption and atonement for the sins of the whole world, both for original sin and actual sin. Salvation from sin comes only through

His death and resurrection but this salvation is big enough to save anyone who asks. People who are mentally incompetent from birth, or who became mentally incompetent after conversion, or children under the age of accountability are automatically covered by Jesus’ death and resurrection. When children reach the age of accountability, they must personally repent and exercise faith in Christ in order to be saved.x

Repentance and Faith

We believe that for men and women to appropriate what God’s prevenient grace has
made possible, they must voluntarily respond in repentance and faith. God gives the
ability , but the act is our responsibility. Because the Holy Spirit has pointed out sin in
our lives, we repent, willingly changing our mind.

Repentance means we turn our back
on that sin and long to be made righteous. We are truly sorry for our failures and confess
them, paying others back and resolving never to let it happen again. Without this
repentance, saving faith is impossible.

Faith is the only condition of salvation, the kind
of faith that agrees with God about our sinful condition and agrees that the only solution
for that condition is found in the gospel. When we exercise faith, we completely and
wholeheartedly rely on the saving ability of Jesus Christ and completely trust ourselves to
Him as Savior and Lord.

We express our experience of saving faith by public
acknowledging His Lordship and by identifying with His Church.xi
Justification, Regeneration and Adoption
We believe that at the same moment someone repents of personal sin and believes on the
Lord Jesus Christ, he or she is justified, regenerated, adopted into the family of God, and
assured of personal salvation through the witness of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that justification is the judicial act of God in which He counts a person as righteous, grants
that person full pardon of all sin, delivers him or her from guilt, and completely releases
that person from the penalty of sins committed. Justification comes by the merit of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by faith alone, not on the basis of works.xii

We believe that regeneration, or the new birth, occurs when the Holy Spirit gives life to
our moral nature, making it possible for us to love and obey God. To be regenerated, we
must genuinely repent and believe in Jesus Christ. The regenerated are able to serve God
with their whole heart and to be delivered from the power of sin which reigns over all the
unsaved.xiii

We believe that adoption is when God makes the justified and regenerated believer a full
participant in all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of a child of God.xiv

Good Works
We believe that although good works cannot save us from our sins or from God’s
judgment, they are the fruit of faith and follow regeneration. Therefore God is pleased
with them and accepts them. They reveal a living faith as surely as fruit reveals the type
of tree.xv

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