Module 5 - Soteriology: The Doctrine of Salvation

The lectures in this fifth module on the Doctrine of Salvation are, like the others, introductory, not exhaustive, and they’re intended to furnish you with a foundation that you can build upon in your further studies. As you’ll recall from the first module, theology, broadly defined, has to do with the study of the knowledge of God, and all that he has revealed for us to believe and do. We noted that it is the doctrine of living unto God through Christ, thus addressing both our thinking and our living. The Doctrine of Salvation, therefore, is an indispensible component to Systematic Theology.

The Apostle Paul compares the believer to a runner, and the Christian life to a race, in a few different places in his epistles. Well, this is a helpful illustration. But what kind of race does the be- liever run? We know, for example, that a person can run both short distance sprints, and long-dis- tance marathons. A sprint requires short bursts of energy and power, but the physical exertion is over quickly. By contrast, a marathon involves sustained endurance over a long duration. The runner must continue to press forward mile after mile after mile, on various terrain, up and down steep hills and across flat stretches, until at long last, he crosses the finish line.

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Rev. Robert McCurley is the minister of the Gospel at Greenville Presbyterian Church in Taylors, SC, a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). https://www.greenvillepresbyterian.com