Session 11 of 13 · Questions 61 to 66
Can we lose our salvation?
The new birth
Explore being born again, falling from grace, and the relationship between faith and works.
The questions
Explore being born again, falling from grace, and the relationship between faith and works.
Questions 61 to 66 explain regeneration, the new birth through which God renews us and enables us to live as his children. The lesson connects the 2026 Articles of Faith's teaching on initial sanctification with freedom from sin's rule at the new birth. It then examines the catechism's warnings about falling from grace and its promise of restoration through God's grace, using John 15, Romans 11, and Wesley's teaching on returning to God. A comparison with the Westminster Confession explains the Methodist and Reformed disagreement about perseverance. James 2 introduces good works as the fruit of living faith, which cannot remove our sins.