THE SPECIFIC ACTS AND PROCESSES IN THE ORDER OF APPLICATION We will now consider each act or process in this series separately and in order, but a brief synopsis of the application of salvation elicited by this order of application may be helpful at the outset. The application of salvation, purchased in its entirety by Christ’s redemptive activity, commences with God the Father’s irresistible summons to the spiritually dead elect sinner, normally issued in and by the proclamation of the gospel,