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Lois And Eunice Research Paper

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Here’s a young woman named Eunice. She was raised in a religious home and was greatly influenced by her mother Lois. She loved to listen to stories from the Bible and enjoyed going to services where she could learn about God. As a teenager, she was still focused on spiritual matters, but she was attracted to a young man who was not into religion at all. Against the best wishes of her godly mother, the teaching of her faith and the tug of her conscience, she married the man. Don’t get me wrong; he was a good man, but thought spiritual matters were for weak people.

After a couple years of marriage, Eunice and her husband had a baby boy, who they named Timothy. In the meantime, Eunice’s father died, so they asked her mother Lois to come and live …show more content…

Both Lois and Eunice listened intently. They saw in Jesus the fulfillment of all the promises in the Old Testament, placed their trust in Him and were converted. These new believers, in turn, focused on teaching Timothy all about Jesus. We know from reading the book of Acts that Paul himself took a personal interest in Tim as a teenager and along with his mother and grandmother, led him to saving faith.
“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:12-15).
What is this ‘saving faith in Christ’that has been described here?
There are four essential elements in saving faith:
(1) Saving faith is a yielding to the authority of God, a submitting of yourself to His rule.
(2) Saving faith is a genuine coming to Christ. We come to Him and cast ourselves upon Him, leaving all other hopes and help behind.
(3) Saving faith consists of the complete surrender of your whole being and life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
(4) Saving faith is believing in Christ with the understanding,affections and will that is with the whole

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