201. What did the Holy Spirit do when He brought me to faith?
By means of the Law of God, the Holy Spirit first convicts me of my sin and leads me to repentance, so that, working through the Gospel and the Sacraments (the Means of Grace), the Holy Spirit then brings me to faith in Christ and makes me a member of the Church. (See also Question 195 above.)
1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
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