have been proclaiming these doctrines for all the years of my ministry. A third distinctive of Reformed churches is their view of the Bible as a whole. The Old and New Testaments reveal God’s unified plan, usually spoken of as the Covenant, or the Covenant of Grace. The essence of the Covenant, as expressed throughout the Bible, is God’s statement to his people: I will be your God and you will be my people. This is found, literally, from Genesis to Revelation (Gen. 17:7–8; Jer. 31:33;