Question 1. Who are you?

I am a child of God.

Question 2. What does it mean to be a child of God?

It means that I belong to him and he loves me.

Question 3. What makes you a child of God?

Grace — God’s free gift of love that I do not deserve and cannot earn.

Question 4. How do you know you are a child of God?

Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God made me his child in baptism, just as his Word promises.

Question 5. Don’t you have to be good for God to love you?

No. God loves me in spite of all I do wrong because of what Jesus has done for me.

Question 6. How do you thank God for this free gift of love?

I promise to love and trust God with all my heart and to live for his glory.

Question 7. How do you love God?

By trusting, worshipping, and obeying him, and by loving my neighbor as myself

Read the rest: I Belong to God: A Covenantal Catechism (PDF)