Available for purchase on The Alliance Store. Ideal for use in Sunday school, small groups, membership classes or as a "coffee table" piece for homes, offices, and reception areas. The booklet includes historical milestones, compelling stories, vivid imagery, and rich testimonials-all born out of a passion for Jesus and an unyielding desire to see His purposes fulfilled throughout the world. This richly-illustrated, 36-page booklet highlights God at work through the Alliance family for more than 125 years. You will receive spiritual fuel to avoid burnout and proven safeguards to enable you to stand strong and lead well in the face of temptation. This kit informs you of the missions emphasis as well as provides promotional resources for your church to use.ĮquippingU is a collection of leadership tools designed specifically to equip Alliance pastors and leaders as they live spiritually healthy lives and successfully lead healthy C&MA churches.ĮquippingU will help you develop strong, vibrant churches that effectively reach diverse peoples in your community for Jesus. These are included as it is always helpful to return to the official statements of various positions, for these documents do not always say exactly what “everyone” says that they do.When you participate in the Year–End Offering this Christmas, you send Alliance workers into overlooked and oppressed communities-redeeming thousands of unfinished stories and fulfilling our unfinished mission together.Įach year, every Alliance church is mailed a Missions Emphasis Resource Kit. The third is the decrees of the council of Trent concerning justification the fourth is the five point remonstrance, published by Jacob Arminius’s followers the year after his death and the fifth is the canons of the Synod of Dort, which was the official international Calvinistic response to the Arminian Remonstrance. The second is the canons of the second Council of Orange, which was the council which rejected the semi-Pelagian heresy. The first is the canons of the Council of Carthage which rejected Pelagianism. There are appendices, which contain English translations of five important historical documents relating to salvation. Finally, Calvinism is contrasted with the main Christian alternative positions that have been adopted: namely, Augustine’s teaching Pelagianism Semi-Pelagianism the position of the Second Council of Orange various positions of medieval Catholicism the traditional Roman Catholic position articulated at the Council of Trent and three alternative positions held by some “evangelical” Christians: orthodox Lutheranism Arminianism and Hyper-Calvinism. The ways that Calvinism fits with the doctrine of “justification by faith alone” and the ways that it impacts the gospel and the Christian life are explored. The Biblical basis for these teachings is outlined. the way that true Christians are kept in their faith, ensuring their ultimate salvation.the effectual calling and regeneration of the elect by the Holy Spirit and.the effective and specific penal-substitutionary atonement of the elect by Christ’s death.the natural corruption and guilt of all people.God’s predestination of the elect to salvation.These truths are explored through the doctrines of: It identifies compatibilism and monergism as two doctrinal distinctives of Calvinism which capture its essence, where compatibilism is understood to be the position that maintains that God’s sovereignty and human responsibility are compatible truths, and monergism is understood to be the position that God is the sole author of salvation. This small book provides an overview of Christian salvation as understood by Reformed “Calvinistic” theologians, and includes pointers to the principal Scriptural passages which teach this view.
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