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Name___________________________________ Jesus Christ: His Mission and Ministry

Chapter 1 Directed Reading Worksheet

Date____________________________________ God’s Revelation and Your Response

Directions: Read through the chapter and fill in the missing information. All the questions run sequential to the chapter. If a true/false statement is false, correct it.

Pages 3–5 Introduction: Desire for God

1. What are some of “the big questions” we often ask ourselves?

2. True or False? The reason why everyone experiences feelings of disappointment and emptiness is because we are created for something much more; we were created for union with God.

3. True or False? You can come to know the existence of God using only your reason.

4. The world is such a gift that it must come from a ____________. You can know ________ through the world when you recognize him in the harmony and ______________ that surrounds you. Everything you see and know in the whole _______________ cannot bring itself into _________________, yet everything does actually _____________.

5. True or False? Even the “big bang theory” needed to be created and brought into existence by God.

6. What does each of us desire?

7. List the abilities and attributes you have as a human being that do not come from the material world.

8. Humans are meant to live in _________________ with God. We are _________________ by our very nature and are aware that there is something much _________________ than ourselves for whom we long and ____________. However, because of _________________ and sinfulness, we can also get knowledge of God _______________.

Pages 7–11 Section 1: Divine Revelation

9. True or False? God did not create humans to know him only on the level of natural law.

10. True or False? The word Revelation is literally translated as “unveiling” and it reveals the significance and meaning of his actions and words.

11. God created humans to be in perfect ____________________ with him and his Revelation took place in _______________, beginning with the creation of the world and the ___________________ of man and woman. God did not _________________ his people even when the first humans ____________________ this communion. Instead, through a series of covenants, God offered human beings _______________________.

12. What kind of god did God reveal himself to be to the Israelites through the Sinai Covenant? What promise did he offer them?

13. True or False? Redemption in Christ includes forgiveness of Original Sin and all personal sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

14. The Blessed Trinity is an ________________ communion of life and love ______________ the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We can come to live within the very ____________________ of the Trinity and we can be made a child of the Father in his ________________. We can fully share in the divine _____________ because Christ poured out the ________________ through faith and Baptism.

15. True or False? The aim of Divine Revelation is merely God’s desire to reveal himself to humans.

16. True or False? God does not just reveal himself merely to “show himself” to humans; his Divine Revelation is aimed at deepening God’s relationship with his people.

17. The _______________ always teaches what is right and true and it is preserved by the teaching authority of the ______________________. God’s Revelation is contained in the _______________________ and has two modes of transmission: _______________________ and Sacred Tradition. The _________________ that the Church never loses all the Father has revealed through ________________.

18. What is Sacred Scripture?

19. What is Sacred Tradition?

20. True or False? Christ commanded the Apostles to preach the Gospel and they entrusted to their successors the task of faithfully preserving, expounding, and spreading it by their preaching.

21. What three realities—in the transmission of the Gospel from age to age—are intimately related?

Pages 13–15 Section 2: Jesus Christ: The Fullness of Revelation

22. Who or what is the climax and fullness of God’s Revelation?

23. Belief in the __________________ of Jesus Christ—who became __________ man while remaining __________ God—is the distinctive __________ of Christian faith. Whatever ____________ says or does is the Son of God _______________ and acting through his human ______________.

24. Summarize four important reasons why God became man?

25. The ___________________—Christ’s Passion, Death, Resurrection and glorious Ascension—is the _________________ of the Incarnation. It is how the world receives the ______________ of salvation. The ___________________ confirmed all Jesus’ words and works and fulfilled all the Old Testament __________________ and those made by ____________ himself.

Pages 16–20 Section 3: Christian Faith: The Response to God’s Revelation

26. True or False? We cannot live a life with God, nor be open to the beauty and truth of the Father’s Revelation in Jesus, without Christian faith.

27. True or False? Faith is a gift of God, not a human act.

28. List nine essential elements of faith below:

29. Explain why the theological virtues are gifts.

30. True or False? We cannot earn the gift of faith.

31. Faith is a _________ that enables us to _____________ to God’s Word, and so is in a certain sense, our _____________ to God. It is an essential gift, necessary for _________________ received through the Sacrament of ________________ which gives us the grace of justification called ____________________ grace.

32. What is the domestic church?

33. The “_________________________” means to render to God his due in _______________. It enables us to revere and love God and gives us a ___________________ to collect our beliefs in God and put them into _________________. This virtue requires us to _________________ God with others as well as _____________________.

34. True or False? All salvation comes from Christ the Head through his Body, the Church.

Pages 22–26 Section 4: Jesus Christ Founded the Church to Pass on the Faith and to Live the Faith

35. Explain what it means to call Jesus the Father’s total self-communication?

36. True or False? Jesus established a community to carry on his work in his name on Pentecost.

37. True or False? Christ founded the Church on the Apostles.

38. Jesus established his _____________ on Simon, who he renamed “Peter,” meaning “____________.” In doing so Jesus endowed his community with a ________________: the choice of the Twelve with Peter as their __________. They represent the ____________________ of Israel and stand as the foundation stone of the new ___________________.

39. True or False? The Church was made manifest by Christ’s Death on the Cross, and at Pentecost the Church “was established.”

40. Christ gave the responsibility to preach the Gospel to the _______________ and their successors down through the ages. The primary task of the ____________________ is to hand on the Deposit of Faith accurately, __________________, and completely. The __________________ is the guide and _________________ who ensures that the Magisterium always and everywhere teaches and __________________ the fullness of the Gospel.

41. What three groups comprise the Church?

42. True or False? The marks of the Church are the nonessential aspects of the Church that designate her as the true Church.

43. True or False? The union of Christ and his body is a mere metaphor, not a living reality.

44. True or False? Faith in Jesus Christ naturally should lead the believer to Christ’s Church, the Catholic Church, which he founded and in which he lives.

45. The Good News of _________________ and all the means Christ left for us to grow in ________________ are found in the Church. St. Paul says that the Church is the ____________________ in the world with Christ as her __________. One is incorporated into the Church through __________ in Jesus Christ and the Sacrament of _______________.

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