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Author: Stan Toler and Louis Bustle Therefore go and make disciples (Matthew 28:19-20.)As Christians we are called to spread Christ's message of love to the world, but it's estimated that as many as 96% of churches do not have an identifiable witnessing plan in place...
Author: Scott Rainey In March 1972, my family moved from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Merriam, Kansas. I had just turned 1 year old. My parents had had a rocky start in their marriage. For my mother, a new Christian, and my father, still running from God, our move to...
Author: Shanti Thomas Almost three decades ago, I had not understood God’s grace the way I recognize its power on my life now. The pursuing, transforming, enduring, yet mysterious and hovering presence of this unmerited favor of God is both capturing and captivating....
Author: T. Scott Daniels Believers in the Wesleyan tradition would find prevenient grace (the gracious and loving presence of God’s Spirit that universally goes before or in front of all people, drawing all people not only to God but to God’s purposes) to be the...
Author: Marco Velasco God’s grace, and only this grace, can offer salvation to humanity. “So God created mankind in his own image…male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Humankind disobeyed and corrupted their original relationship with God. In our fallen...
Author: Svetlana Khobnya Is “Prevenient Grace” Biblical? The task of establishing the idea of “prevenient grace” from a New Testament perspective may be challenging because the term itself does not appear in the New Testament or in the whole Bible for that matter. The...
Author: Tim Green Interwoven throughout the fabric of the Old Testament is the life-giving and hope-filled confession of faith: “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (Psalm 145:8, ESV). From narratives (Exodus 34:6-7;...
Author: Geordan Hammond Prevenient grace has a foundational place in John Wesley’s theology. Why is this so? Because salvation is central to the Christian faith. Wesley stated, “salvation begins with what is usually termed (and very properly) ‘preventing...
Author: T. A. Noble The term “prevenient grace” is not in the Bible. Indeed, this whole way of speaking of different kinds of “graces”—“prevenient grace,” “saving grace,” “sanctifying grace”—is not the way the biblical writers speak of grace. Where then did this...
Author: David Busic There is a difference between providential grace and prevenient grace. Providence is how God provides for the sustenance and provision of his creation.1 God “sees to” (Gen. 22:8, 14) what is needed to sustain the world and to provide for...
Know the story of Ptr. Jared of Eastern Samar and learn how God's grace changed his life by watching this video.
Know the story of Ptr. Jared of Eastern Samar and learn how God's grace changed his life by watching this video.