Confirmation overview pdf

Conﬁrmation Overview
What is Conﬁrmation?
Let’s take a look.....

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Conﬁrmation
A Public Profession of your faith - you claim the
name Christian for yourself

Let’s Explore -

• GRACE

• Building Blocks of your Faith

• What Happens on Conﬁrmation Day?

• Your Decision


CHOICES - Your Choice!
Confirmation is defined as "with firm-ness".

Confirmation means accepting responsibility
for your faith and your choices in life.
Childhood is a time when you're told what to
do.

Young adulthood and teenage years are
times when you must do what is right on your
own.

The choices you make are made not for
recognition or reward but for choosing the
right thing to do.


Confirms our Baptism
✦ Confirmation means to make firm or solid what
has gone before and what our parents, families, and
God have done.

✦ Before refers to our Baptism and in a broader
sense to all our faith journey up to this point. Many
of us were baptized as babies, although some of us
were not. If you were baptized as a baby, you did
Confirmation builds on what was
not make that choice. It was done for us. It was
begun in Baptism. It completes the
God's gift to us.
process of initiation into the Christian
community. It is the beginning of the
✦ Baptism reminds us that God accepts us and loves
journey to learn and live a life in
us even before we can respond. Our parents or
Christ.
sponsors pledged to raise us in faith and the Church
pledged to help them.


Our Growth
People evolve
✦ A baby is born and fed and begins to We have many stages
grow.
and changes in our lives
✦ Growth is as vital to human life as
nourishment.

✦ The body and mind must grow to stay
alive.

✦ The soul also needs to grow in the life of
GRACE.

✦ Just as the human body must grow through
childhood, adolescence, and then adulthood, Our Soul evolves
the human soul needs to grow into maturity. We have many stages and changes in our
Spiritual Journey!


GRACE
✦ GRACE is God’s love poured out to and
over us - LIKE A WATER FALLING OVER US!

✦ God’s Love is always available to us!

✦The Church believes that Baptism is a
special means of God's love for us.

✦ We name this love as God's grace.

✦ The Greek word for gift in the New
Testament is charis which means gift.


CONFIRMATION
a Means of GRACE

✦ Confirmation is an expression of God’s
love to and for us!

✦ Confirmation is a gift through Jesus Christ.

✦ Confirmation is about YOUR choice to
accept God’s Love!

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BUILDING BLOCKS
of GRACE

BUILDING YOUR FAITH WITH GRACE

✦ PRAYER

✦ THE HOLY BIBLE - SCRIPTURE

✦ THE CHURCH - LEARNING (RETREATS) &
WORSHIP

✦ THE SACRAMENTS - BAPTISM & HOLY
COMMUNION

✦ MISSION SERVING OTHERS


PRAYER
MATTHEW 7:7 (NIV)
"ASK AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK AND YOU
WILL FIND; KNOCK AND THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED
TO YOU.


GOD’S WORD
MATTHEW 4:4 (NIV)
JESUS ANSWERED, "IT IS WRITTEN: 'MAN DOES NOT
LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT
COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' ".


GOD’S WORD
MATTHEW 4:4 (NIV)

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THE CHURCH
A COMMUNITY OF FAITH
MATTHEW 18:20 (NIV)
"FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE COME TOGETHER IN
MY NAME, THERE AM I WITH THEM."


THE CHURCH
MATTHEW 18:20 (NIV)

Learn


THE CHURCH
MATTHEW 18:20 (NIV)

Learn Worship


SACRAMENTS
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1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26 (NIV) Ho ly Co
"FOR I RECEIVED FROM THE LORD WHAT I ALSO
PASSED ON TO YOU: THE LORD JESUS, ON THE NIGHT
HE WAS BETRAYED, TOOK BREAD, AND WHEN HE
HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE BROKE IT AND SAID, "THIS IS
MY BODY, WHICH IS FOR YOU; DO THIS IN
REMEMBRANCE OF ME." IN THE SAME WAY, AFTER
SUPPER HE TOOK THE CUP, SAYING, "THIS CUP IS THE
NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD; DO THIS, WHENEVER

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YOU DRINK IT, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME." FOR

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WHENEVER YOU EAT THIS BREAD AND DRINK THIS
CUP, YOU PROCLAIM THE LORD'S DEATH UNTIL HE
COMES.”


MISSION - SERVING OTHERS
GALATIANS 5:13 (NIV)
"YOU, MY BROTHERS, WERE CALLED TO BE FREE.
BUT DO NOT USE YOUR FREEDOM TO INDULGE THE
SINFUL NATURE ; RATHER, SERVE ONE ANOTHER IN
LOVE. "


YOUR DECISION

Confirmation builds on what was begun in
Baptism. It completes the process of initiation into
the Christian community. It is the beginning of
the journey to learn and live a life in Christ.

In Confirmation we affirm our baptism.
We are not re-baptized!
We recognize the gift of baptism from other
Christian faiths.


YOUR DECISION
If you have not been baptized
you will have the
opportunity to be baptized
as part of the
Confirmation Service!

Confirmation builds on what was begun in
Baptism. It completes the process of initiation into
the Christian community. It is the beginning of
the journey to learn and live a life in Christ.

In Confirmation we affirm our baptism.
We are not re-baptized!
We recognize the gift of baptism from other
Christian faiths.


YOUR DECISION

We are old enough to profess our own faith,
to say what we believe. It doesn't mean that
we know all of the answers, but we can learn
enough to begin the journey ourselves.

To be conﬁrmed is to make a public
profession that you claim the name Christian
for yourself.


YOUR DECISION
We must ask ourselves some questions
as we journey together
this year -


for yourself.


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Confirmation Day
✦ Confirmation is part of a service at
our church.

✦ God’s Love is poured out upon us
during Confirmation.

✦ Confirmation is done with the laying
on of hands and a prayer that the Holy
Spirit would work in your life.

✦ If you choose to be confirmed, you
will become a professing member of
Christ's universal church.

✦ The United Methodist Church, and
our congregation, and you will be
commissioned for a life of Christian
discipleship and service.


Live Your FAITH!
✦ We are old enough to contribute to the life
of our congregation and to live our faith in the
world. We have been part of the church
since we were baptized.

✦ Confirmation allows us to be part of the
church because it is what WE decide and
desire. It is your decision to claim the name
Christian.

✦ When we profess our faith, God's Spirit
through the church confirms us in faith! Are
you ready to make your own commitment to
faith? Your journey begins with confirmation
as you endeavor to make God an integral
part of your life.


Have a
Great Journey!


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