Kootenai Church Sunday School: Christian Ethics

Dave Rich examines virtue ethics within Christian teaching, contrasting secular approaches with biblical principles. While godless virtue ethics lacks authority and struggles with practical guidance, Christian virtue ethics finds its foundation in God's character and Christ's perfect example. Scripture emphasizes moral excellence through passages such as 2 Peter 1:3-8, which call believers to cultivate virtues including knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, and love.
Virtue ethics complements deontological commands and teleological purposes in comprehensive Christian ethics. Believers imitate Christ as the perfect exemplar, bearing God's image through godly attributes that produce righteous actions, for a good tree bears good fruit.

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Host
Dave Rich
Teacher, Kootenai Community Church

What is Kootenai Church Sunday School: Christian Ethics?

This comprehensive Christian Ethics series provides believers with a biblical framework for navigating moral questions in contemporary life. Through systematic teaching, the series explores meta-ethics, normative ethics, and practical applications grounded in Scripture. Topics include the authority of God's Word, the relationship between law and gospel, and identity in Christ as the foundation for ethical living. The series addresses modern ethical dilemmas, including technology ethics, artificial intelligence, social media, business ethics, sexual ethics, and racism. Listeners will gain clarity on controversial topics such as Sabbath-keeping, images of Jesus, and the conscience's role in decision-making while avoiding ethical ditches like legalism and antinomianism.