2025 "The Five Solas of the Reformation"
Week 1: Sola Scriptura: Scripture Alone
Our theme for 2025 at FWC is Maintaining Our Moral Compass. In the month of February we will focus on True North Fundamentals. Simple and yet comforting, the five Solas are the foundation to helping us hold on to the truth and counter false teaching. We must remain committed to staying focused on what is truth, in spite of what the culture may embrace.
MAIN IDEA: The Bible contains all we need to know about God for our salvation and to follow Him.
Head Change: To understand that God's Word has supreme and ultimate authority over the church and our lives as believers.
Heart Change: To draw delight and direction from the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and sufficient Word of God.
Life Change: To consider the Bible as the defining principle of our lives and the biblical worldview as the unchanging truth of God.
Week 2: Solus Christus: Christ Alone
MAIN IDEA: Salvation is found in Christ alone.
Head Change: To understand that Christ is the ultimate prophet, priest, and king who ends our hostility and enmity with God because of our sin.
Heart Change: To grow in our intimacy with Christ and experience His transforming power and grace.
Life Change: To believe, articulate and defend Christ's sufficiency and exclusivity.
Week 3: Sola Gratia: Grace Alone
MAIN IDEA: We are saved by grace, a freely offered but costly gift from God.
Head Change: To know that nothing we do or say plays a role in the grace freely offered by God to us.
Heart Change: To appreciate the cost of grace and accept the gift freely given.
Life Change: To live under grace and walk in the freedom that grace gives.
Week 4: Sola Fide: Faith Alone
MAIN IDEA: Christ's righteousness is credited to us due to his completed work on the cross, and we receive this righteousness only by faith.
Head Change: To understand that God's righteousness belongs to Him; we cannot attain righteousness by our good works.
Heart Change: To rest in the assurance that we are sinners justified by God's grace through faith alone in the righteousness of Christ alone.
Life Change: To live our Christian lives righteously, justified solely through faith.
Week 5: Soli Deo Gloria: To the Glory of God Alone
MAIN IDEA: All five Solas make perfect sense when we can practice them with the purpose of Sola Deo Gloria—giving God alone the glory.
Head Change: To realize that whatever we do, the ultimate goal is to glorify God through it.
Heart Change: To be motivated to live faithfully to glorify God.
Life Change: To intentionally examine our motives and ask ourselves if our actions glorify God or ourselves.