Name: ______________________________
Parent’s Signature: ____________________________________
Pastor Conner
Confirmation 2015-2016
Third Article of the Apostles’ Creed part 7
1. Write out the third article of the Apostles’ Creed (on page 17 in your
Small Catechism).
2. Write out the explanation to the third article of the Apostles’ Creed (on
page 17 in your Small Catechism).
“The Holy Spirit”
With your parents read John 14:15-27 and John 15:26-27.
3. Whom does Jesus promise to send?
4. What will the Holy Spirit do? (see verse 26)
5. What else will the Holy Spirit do?
6. Who is the Holy Spirit? (see page 314 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
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With your parents read Titus 3:4-7.
7. How does God save us?
With your parents read 1 Corinthians 12:3.
8. How is it that we are able to confess faith in Jesus?
With your parents read 1 Corinthians 2:14, Ephesians 2:1, and Romans 8:7. Read all the verses.
9. How is the unbeliever described?
10. The explanation to the third article says that “the Holy Spirit has called me by the Gospel.” With your
parents read Romans 1:16 and 2 Thessalonians 2:14; explain what they say about the Gospel.
11. What is the Gospel? (see page 314 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
“The Holy Christian Church”
12. What is “the holy Christian church?” (see page 315 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
13. By saying “the” holy Christian church, how many churches are we confessing faith in? (for help see
page 158 in your Small Catechism – red number 171.)
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14. What is a denomination? (see Note on bottom of page 162 in your Small Catechism)
15. If in the Apostles’ Creed we confess faith in one Christian church, yet there are lots of different
denominations in the world, how can there only be one Christian Church? (see page 161 in your Small
Catechism – red number 178)
16. What does the Bible teach about our life in the Church? (see letters A., B., C., and D. on page 162-164
(red number 179) in your Small Catechism)
A.
B.
C.
D.
17. Why is the Christian Church “holy”? See page 159 in your Small Catechism (red number 172).
18. What does the word “sanctification” mean? (see page 314 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
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With your parents read 1 Corinthians 3:11 and Ephesians 2:20. See also page 159 in your Small Catechism
(red number 173).
19. Why is the Church called “Christian”? (these verses talk about the foundation upon which the Church
is built and explains why it is called Christian)
“The Communion of Saints”
20. What is “the communion of saints”? (see page 315 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
“The Forgiveness of Sins”
21. What is “the forgiveness of sins”? (see page 314 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
22. How do you receive this forgiveness? (see Acts 10:34-43)
With your parents read Romans 3:28 and Ephesians 2:8-10.
23. What does “justified” mean?
24. How is it possible for a just and holy God to declare sinners righteous (justification)? (see page 165 in
you Small Catechism (red number 182).
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“The Resurrection of the Body”
With your parents read 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
25. What is “the resurrection of the body”? (also see page 315 in your Lutheran
Catechesis Book)
With your parents read 1 Corinthians 15:13-17.
26. How important is the doctrine of the resurrection to the Christian faith?
27. What does Paul say about it in verse 17?
“The Life Everlasting”
28. What is “the life everlasting”? (see page 315 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
A Look at the Divine Liturgy
With your parents read pages 139-143 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book and answer the
following questions.
29. What is one thing you learned in the first paragraph on page 139?
30. What is one thing your parents learned in the first paragraph on page 139?
31. What are the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives to us in worship? (see the second paragraph on page 139)
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32. What does this mean about the importance of church? (read the two paragraphs on page 138 in your
Lutheran Catechesis Book) In other words, why is church important and what happens there?
33. What promise does Baptism carry? (see the Baptism section on page 139 in your Lutheran Catechesis
Book)
34. What is the purpose of preaching? (see the preaching section on pages 140 in your Lutheran Catechesis
Book)
35. What promise does the Lord’s Supper carry? (see the Lord’s Supper section on
pages 140-141 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
36. Why has the church practiced “closed communion.”? (see second paragraph on page 141 in your
Lutheran Catechesis Book)
37. What promise does Holy Absolution carry? (see the Holy Absolution section on page 141-142 in your
Lutheran Catechesis Book)
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38. Describe what “excommunication” is and why it is done (see Holy Absolution section on page 141142 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
39. Where do pastors get their authority? (see the Ministers of Christ are Bound to the Authority of the
Scriptures section on page 142 in your Lutheran Catechesis Book)
40. With Your parents read 2 Timothy 4:1-5. Paul here gives instructions to pastors. Focus on verse 2.
What are pastors supposed to do? (fill in the blank below – use the translation of your Bible)
English Standard Version:
________________ the Word; be ___________ in season and out of season; ____________,
________________, and ________________ with complete patience and teaching.
OR
New International Version:
________________ the Word; be ____________ in season and out of season: _____________,
________________ and ____________________ - with great patience and careful instruction.
41. With your parents discuss what these words mean. What are pastors to do with the Word of God?
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