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*It affirms God’s eternal knowledge of and sovereignty over every person’s salvation or condemnation
*It affirms God’s eternal knowledge of and sovereignty over every person’s salvation or condemnation
*It denies that God’s sovereignty and knowledge require Him to cause a person’s acceptance or rejection of faith in Christ.
*It denies that God’s sovereignty and knowledge require Him to cause a person’s acceptance or rejection of faith in Christ.
*It affirms that God, as an expression of His sovereignty, endows each person with actual free will (the ability to choose between two options), which must be exercised in accepting or rejecting God’s gracious call to salvation by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel.
*It denies that the decision of faith is an act of God rather than a response of the person.
*It denies that there is an “effectual call” for certain people that is different from a “general call” to any person who hears and understands the Gospel.
*It affirms that when a person responds in faith to the Gospel, God promises to complete the process of salvation in the believer into eternity. This process begins with justification, whereby the sinner is immediately acquitted of all sin and granted peace with God; continues in sanctification, whereby the saved are progressively conformed to the image of Christ by the indwelling Holy Spirit; and concludes in glorification, whereby the saint enjoys life with Christ in heaven forever.
*It denies that this Holy Spirit-sealed relationship can ever be broken.
*It affirms that the Lord Jesus Christ commissioned His church to preach the good news of salvation to all people to the ends of the earth.
*It affirms that the proclamation of the Gospel is God’s means of bringing any person to salvation.
*It denies that salvation is possible outside of a faith response to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.