Feb 06 2008
Ordo Salutis
For the past 3 months I have been teaching the doctrinal portion of my own, “History and Doctrines of the Baptists” during our Wednesday night services. We have started with the basic doctrines of salvation: repentance, faith, regeneration, justification, Godly Sorrow/Conviction. We have now finished the Soteriological doctrines and last week we reviewed all of these doctrines. Tonight I have something special planned.
Theology in and of itself is purely academic and meaningless. So, tonight I am going to deal with “ordo salutis” or the order of salvation. I have a pretty cool idea in mind for my congregation, we are going to play a game. I am going to make a card for each doctrine we have learned about that has that doctrines name printed on it. Then I am going to ask the congregation to put them in the correct order based on what I have taught them in order to get the dead man to live! In other words, I’m going to make them tell me how God saves some using theological terms.
This does 3 things. First, it causes them to THINK and use their minds to make sense of everything they’ve been taught thus far. Second, THEY will be the ones defining in their own minds that regeneration proceeds faith. Lastly, it primes them to look deeper at the sovereignty of God in salvation.
I’m super pumped. I hope my folks are getting it! We will see tonight.
One response so far
Who would have thought that studying theology could be this fun! I truly enjoyed our Bible study this Wednesday. It isn’t often that we get to be so interactive. I liked the way everyone worked together to reason through the order of salvation. Thanks Bro. Carlton!