Solus Christus

Robby Pollard, Lead Pastor

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Five Solas of the Reformation

Sola Gratia (grace alone)

Sola fide (faith alone)

Solus Christus (Christ alone)

Soli Deo Gloria (to the glory of God alone)

Sola Scripture (Scripture alone)

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John 14:6

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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Acts 4:12

¹²And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

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1 Timothy 2:5-6

⁵For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

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John 17:3

³And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

“The center, the cornerstone, the jewel in the crown of Christianity is not an idea, a system or a thing; it is not even ‘the gospel’ as such. It is Jesus Christ.” - Michael Reeves

“Christology is the true hub round which the wheel of theology revolves, and to which its separate spokes must each be correctly anchored if the wheel is not to get bent.” - J.I. Packer

Genesis 1:1

¹In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 22:21

²¹The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.

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Biblical Gospel

Christ alone

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False Gospel

Christ and...

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Galatians 1:6-7

⁶I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— ⁷not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

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Colossians 2:4

⁴I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

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Colossians 2:8

⁸See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

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Colossians 2:21

²¹“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”

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Biblical Gospel

Christ alone

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False Gospel

Christ and...

   - Circumcision

   - Rituals

   - Laws

   - Your ability

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Colossians 1:3-5a

³We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, ⁵because of the hope laid up for you in heaven.

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Colossians 1:5b-7a

⁵Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ⁶which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, ⁷just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant.

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Grace alone. By faith alone. In Christ alone.

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Colossians 1:9-10

⁹And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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Colossians 1:11-12

¹¹being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

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Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)

⁶But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Colossians 1:11-12

¹¹being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

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Colossians 1:12

¹²giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

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Grace alone. By faith alone. In Christ alone.

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Colossians 1:13-14

¹³He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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Romans 3:9

⁹What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

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Romans 7:14

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

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Galatians 3:22

²²But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Colossians 1:13-14

¹³He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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Colossians 1:15-18

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Colossians 1:19-20

¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

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Colossians 1:21-23

²¹And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, ²²he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, ²³if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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Grace alone. By faith alone. In Christ alone.

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Biblical Gospel

Christ alone

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False Gospel

Christ and...