2026-10-21: More on soteriology; more on the third crusade

Summary

Continuing our studies of soteriology, and the Third Crusade.

Content

New content

Ichthys Bible Study:

• What is the bare minimum required to be saved?
  • §Is belonging to some specific group necessary for salvation?
    • §Group discussion: Salvation and works of faith
  • §Is having good theology generally necessary for salvation?
    • §Group discussion: Can someone not properly recognize sin as sin, and yet still be saved?

Open Bible Study:

• Ryan Reeves: Crusades (Part II)
  • §Follow-on topic: Evaluating Richard the Lionheart and Saladin as chivalric heroes
  • §Follow-on-topic: The only hero we should worship is Christ
    • §Group discussion: On honoring human authority; how greed is idolatry

Waiting for the new review questions format to back-propagate

In the last blog post, I mentioned us settling on a new set of guidelines for the review questions. To date, we still haven’t back-propagated this new format. It’s high on the priority list.

Answering questions over email

For the first time in a few months, a site reader emailed me asking some questions, so I have spent a number of hours over the past couple weeks reading and responding to that email chain. Eventually this will probably make its way onto the site on the site, after getting anonymized and cleaned up a bit.

More work on finalizing the process

You can read more about this over on the design blog.