Vocabulary for Lesson 24 (Vocab Quiz/Test 6.3)

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Learning is work. There are multiple ways to study. Different study strategies will work differently for each student. Serious students should try all of them several (6-7) times to see how they work when done well. For the best learning, every student will likely need to use more than one strategy and switch between them. Here are some tips:

  1. Use multiple senses: read, speak, and hear the material aloud. Then, write your version with a pencil into your notebook and notice how that feels. Then, read your own definition aloud as you study. (combine with the next two strategies)
  2. Use your brain: condense the definitions into a form that makes sense to you. Identify key words for every definition. Think of synonyms that you would use. (combine with the other strategies)
  3. Use your body: say your definition and act it out with an expressiveness that fits the meaning.
  4. Use your friends and family: Ask someone to quiz you using spaced repetition for a set amount of time, from your notes. (Example: for 10 minutes, all questions get repeated, but the quicker and more accurate your answer, the longer the interval until that question comes back. Questions you get wrong are repeated sooner.)
  5. Use basic technology: Show all definitions and hide all the terms on this page. Try to remember each term before you show it (by clicking the definition) to check your answer. Then, show all terms and hide the definitions on the page. Only show a definition (by clicking the term) after you have made your best effort to remember your own version of it.
  6. Use tools: Make a stack of index cards with terms on one side and your definitions on the other. When reviewing, don't check the opposite side until you've made your best effort to remember. Sort them into three stacks: Easy, Hard, and Failed. Then re-sort the Failed cards and work through the Hard cards until they are all Easy.
  7. Use advanced technology: On the web (Example: SuperNotes with free signup or with subscription.) or on an app (Example: Anki), create a stack of virtual cards and let the software quiz you. It will use spaced repetition automatically.
  8. Use brute force memorization: Copy a term and definition from this page. Then navigate to Catechesis Contents > Memorization Tool and paste it into the box, then follow the instructions on that page. (Caution: this works quickly for memorizing texts, but must be repeated a few times after a break for long-term recall. It is less effective than the other strategies for understanding what you memorize.)
worthy reception
Receiving the Lord's body and blood as a penitent sinner with faith in His words, "This is My body, which is given for you.... This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins." Such reception presupposes Baptism and catechesis. [199]
examination
When the pastor questions a person to discern his confession of faith, before confirming him, granting him membership in the congregation, absolving him, or admitting him to the Lord's Table. [200]
closed communion
The Lord's Table is only open to those who (1) are baptized Christians; (2) confess faith in Christ alone for salvation; (3) confess faith in the real presence, namely, the word of Christ, "This is My body, which is given for you....This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins"; (4) are penitent sinners who are not under church discipline in our congregation or elsewhere; (5) are one with us in their confession of faith. Ordinarily this means members of our congregation, sister congregations, or other churches with whom we are in altar and pulpit fellowship.
NOTE: To commune at a church's altar is to say "AMEN" to the faith that is taught and confessed in that church. When you visit sister congregations of our Synod, or when guests of sister congregations visit with you at our Divine Service, it is proper to announce to the pastor the desire to commune at the Lord's Table before approaching the altar. [201]
altar fellowship
To confess agreement with the doctrine that is confessed and preached in a church by attending the Lord's Supper at that church's altar. [202]
pulpit fellowship
To confess agreement with a church's public doctrine of the Gospel and sacraments by preaching in its service, or allowing a pastor or someone of another church to preach in our service. [203]
fellowship
(1) To be joined together with other Christians in hearing preaching and receiving the Sacrament of the Altar (external fellowship in the doctrine of the Gospel, confession, creed, and sacramental administration). (2) The association of faith and the Holy Spirit in the hearts of Christians that is created and nurtured by the pure preaching of the Gospel and the faithful administration of the sacraments according to Christ's institution (hidden fellowship in the Holy Spirit and faith). [204]