concerning the nature of faith and “effectual calling.” This doctrine has always understood the confession of faith to be a charismatic practice, a direct fruit of the Spirit’s working. I suggest that proper appreciation of what is at stake in such a claim turns on a forthright recognition of the Spirit as the present power of God’s eschatological reign, militant to determine our reality, and thereby to secure us in faith by entrusting us without reserve to a life “in Christ.”1