Predestination

The frozen chosen?  Are you kidding?  We know that even the mention of this idea - that God calls individuals to himself by name not because of the good things that they have done but out of the depths of his own love and mercy - is one that can send people running for the hills.  But under the authority of Scripture and as part of our Reformed tradition, we affirm this idea, which we understand to be a gracious and life-giving truth.  All preconceived ideas aside, the Biblical (see Ephesians 1, for one) doctrine of predestination exalts the grace of God and protects us from the burdensome idea that God loves us because we are good (and by inference, is mad at us when we are not so good).  We’d love to talk to you about why this is.  In the meantime, check this out:  http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/2006/1793_Does_God_choose_who_will_be_saved/.