Question 95 of 118
What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption are His ordinances, especially the Word, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper and Prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.
Scripture proofs
- Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
- James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- 1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
- Acts 14:1
In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
- Acts 2:41-42
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls. They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).