1 Corinthians 15:1-2

“If you are not persevering in the Christian faith, this is evidence that you did not have saving faith in the first place.”

“The faith which collapses is the faith which has not thought things out and thought them through. For so many of us faith is a superficial thing. We tend to accept things because we are told them and to possess them merely at secondhand. If we undergo the agony of thought there may be much that we must discard, but what is left is really ours in such a way that nothing can ever take it from us.”

• What is the test of genuine faith based on these verses?
• What does it mean to “take your stand” and “hold firmly” to the gospel?
• According to vv.54-55, what makes my Christian life ultimately triumphant regardless of struggles and setbacks that I experience?