24 Questions
What is the doctrine of prevenient grace?
The idea that God must first seek a person before they can seek God
The doctrine of justification by faith is not a Biblical truth.
False
What is the result of God's prevenient drawing in a person's life?
The impulse to pursue God
The Psalmist says, 'As the _______________ panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.'
hart
What is the outcome of the combination of God's prior working and human response?
An identifiable experience of the Divine
Match the following statements with their corresponding Biblical references:
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. = John 6:44 Thy right hand upholdeth me. = Psalm 63:8 As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. = Psalm 42:1
According to the passage, what is the danger of modern Christians?
Losing God amid the wonders of His Word
The passage states that we can fully know God's personality in one encounter.
False
According to the passage, what is the essence of genuine religion?
The response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God
The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the ______________________ of New Testament religion.
throbbing heart
Match the following quotes with their corresponding authors:
This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. = John We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. = St. Bernard Shoreless Ocean, who can sound Thee? Thine own eternity is round Thee, Majesty divine! = Author not specified
The passage states that the moment of regeneration is the end of our pursuit of God.
False
Moses' request to God was to show him:
His glory
According to the passage, the term 'accepting Christ' is found in the Bible.
False
What is the result of not having an acute desire for God?
Complacency, which is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth
According to the passage, God discovers Himself to ____________ and hides Himself from the wise and prudent.
babes
Match the following individuals with their characteristics mentioned in the passage:
Moses = Requested to see God's glory David = Had a life of spiritual desire Paul = Had a burning desire after Christ
According to the passage, our religious lives today are characterized by simplicity and a strong desire for God.
False
What is the author's main concern in seeking God?
Seeking God Himself
The author recommends complicating our theology in prayer.
False
What is the spiritual principle learned from the story of Levi receiving no share of the land in Canaan?
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.
The author of the quaint old English classic, The Cloud of Unknowing, recommends that we lift up our heart unto God with a _______________ of love.
meek stirring
Match the following phrases with their meanings:
God Himself = Seeking God's presence without distractions God's goods = Seeking God's gifts and blessings Naked intent = Praying with a single-minded focus on God
What is the prayer of the author at the end of the passage?
O God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still.
Study Notes
The Doctrine of Prevenient Grace
- Christian theology teaches that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man
- A work of enlightenment must be done within a sinful man before he can think a right thought of God
- The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him
The Pursuit of God
- The doctrine of justification by faith has been interpreted to bar men from the knowledge of God
- Faith may now be exercised without a jar to the moral life and without embarrassment to the Adamic ego
- The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word
The Nature of God
- God is a Person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can
- God thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires, and suffers as any other person may
- God communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions
The Interchange Between God and the Soul
- The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion
- This intercourse between God and the soul is known to us in conscious personal awareness
The Knowledge of God
- We are in little (our sins excepted) what God is in large
- Being made in His image, we have within us the capacity to know Him
- The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration, our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition
The Pursuit of God
- To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love
- The children of the burning heart will understand this holy paradox
- The experiential heart-theology of a grand army of fragrant saints is rejected in favor of a smug interpretation of Scripture
The Necessity of Desire
- Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people
- He waits to be wanted
- Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain
The Simplicity of Finding God
- We must simplify our approach to Him
- We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few)
- We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood
This quiz covers the Christian theological concept of prevenient grace, which holds that God must first seek a person before they can seek God. It explores the idea that a work of enlightenment must occur within a person before they can think rightly of God.
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