Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith and today I am joined by Scott

Keith and Bruce Hillman. We, uh, I feel like I need to make a dig at Adam because the last time I was off

the show when I was editing it, I heard he said I was replaceable. So, so, so I would say, it'd be funny to be like, we were all on a road trip together and we

tied him on the roof and we thought he was safe and then we got to the hotel and he was gone.

We did a Mitt Rompeed-Dol situation.

Is that a vacation?

That's a vacation.

We're grandma, yeah.

Yep.

So, but Adam, if you're listening to this, uh turns out you're replaceable but uh no um we we we we dearly miss

adam but today we are doing the doctrine of saving faith this uh in the outline that we're following

comes after the doctrine of christ we took two episodes to do that.

If you miss that, you know, do a little time travel here.

I just edited that yesterday, the first episode in there.

I thought it was very good conversation on sort of the,

our first episode was, why does the doctrine of Christ matter?

Sort of a bit of history and context of how the church has dealt with that issue for since the beginning, really, and was an excellent episode. So if

you missed that, I would go back and listen to that. So today we're going to talk about

doctrine of saving faith, though. And you guys had a little bit of back forth before the show started, which I actually think is kind of a good grounds to start on for asking the question.

You know, why do we assert this?

Why is it come next in a systematic theology and dogmatic theology?

I think it touched a bit on this as we closed the last episode talking about Christ's work and the

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