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We Evangelicals and Our Mission: How We Got to Where We Are and How to Get to Where We Should Be Going is unavailable, but you can change that!

Classical orthodoxy, the Reformational understanding of the gospel, and the Great Awakening beliefs and behaviors, including missions/missiology, reflect what the evangelical movement and its mission should be if it is to have a future. Evangelicals must work and pray together in resubmission of their ways of thinking and working to the Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. They must recover...

Calvin assigned supreme authority to Scripture interpreted under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Believers are to acknowledge Scripture as having the same authority as if they had heard the words uttered by God himself. It was from a completely authoritative Bible that Calvin became convinced of the total sovereignty of God. From that doctrine flowed much of his theology, including his famous “five points” and his acceptance of the church, the sacraments (baptism and the Lord’s supper), and civil