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What Is Faith? (Crucial Questions)

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Overview

The word faith is heard often these days, but it is given many different meanings. Sometimes it is used in the sense of trust. Other times, it has more to do with hope. Perhaps most often, it is used to mean belief in something apart from rational or empirical support.

Because faith is central to the Christian life, believers must have a clear understanding of how the Bible defines the word and the concept. In this Crucial Questions booklet, Dr. R. C. Sproul looks to Hebrews 11, the great faith chapter of the Bible, for a definition of faith and numerous examples of it in the lives of the saints. He shows that faith, in scriptural terms, is not believing in God but believing God and living according to his Word. Armed with this helpful teaching, readers will gain clarity as to whether the faith they profess is the genuine article.

With the Logos edition, What Is Faith? is fully integrated with the other resources in your digital library, including Bibles, maps, dictionaries, and numerous other Bible study tools. All Scripture references are linked directly to the text of your favorite Bible translation, making your Bible study and teaching preparations more effective and rewarding. You can also explore Scripture on a deeper level with powerful search features, Passage Guides, and all the other interactive features in your Logos library. That makes this important book more useful than ever before for pastors, teachers, Bible study leaders, and anyone else desiring to get deeper into the truth of God’s Word.

  • Examination of Hebrews 11
  • Examples of faith in the lives of the saints
  • Helpful insights on faith

Top Highlights

“The idea is this: I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, but I know that God knows what tomorrow is going to bring. So if God promises that tomorrow will bring something, and if I trust God for tomorrow, I have faith in something I have not yet seen. That faith serves as evidence because its object is God. I know Him; He has a track record—He is infallible and never lies. God knows everything and is perfect in whatever He communicates. So if God tells me that something is going to happen tomorrow, I believe it even though I haven’t seen it yet.” (Page 7)

“At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It’s believing God. The Christian life is about believing God. It is about living by every word that proceeds from His mouth (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4). It is about following Him into places where we’ve never been, into situations that we’ve never experienced, into countries that we’ve never seen—because we know who He is.” (Page 9)

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Page 2)

“Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.” (Page 21)

“Living in submission to what God commands is the essence of faith” (Page 27)

  • Title: What Is Faith?
  • Author: R. C. Sproul
  • Series: The Crucial Questions Series
  • Volume: 8
  • Publisher: Reformation Trust
  • Print Publication Date: 2010
  • Logos Release Date: 2012
  • Pages: 67
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
  • Subjects: Faith; Reformed Church › Doctrines
  • ISBNs: 9781567692075, 1567692079
  • Resource ID: LLS:FAITHSPROUL
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:54:27Z

R. C. Sproul is the founder and president of Ligonier Ministries and president of Ligonier Academy. He also serves as the senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, Fla., and he has written more than 70 books including Defending Your Faith, The Truth of the Cross, Truths We Confess, and commentaries on Romans and John in the Saint Andrew’s Expositional Commentary series.

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