Does God drag people kicking and screaming against their will into heaven?

R.C. Sproul answers that question today, odd renewing your mind.

Some Christians claim that becoming a Christian is up to us.

We're the ones who decide whether or not we're going to follow Christ.

Others say it's all up to God, that He must grant repentance before we can be saved.

But does that make us robots with no will to choose for ourselves?

Let's dig into this important aspect of Reformed Theology with Dr. Sproul.

As we continue now with our study of what is Reformed Theology,

we're going to continue with our examination of the Acrostic Toolup,

which we have trampled down this beautiful flower in God's garden

by changing total depravity to radical corruption.

We turn the tea to an R. We turned unconditional election into sovereign election.

And then we took limited atonement into definite atonement.

And we're going to do it again.

We're going to change another letter here.

This letter I stands for the idea of irresistible grace,

irresistible grace. And again, I have a little bit of problem with that designation,

not because I don't believe the classical doctrine of irresistible grace,

but because it also is misleading to many people when they hear it,

articulated in these terms.

And so we're going to talk about effectual grace.

And unfortunately, as you can see, there's very little left of our beautiful flower

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