Reformation is needed in almost every day.

If Paul, within years of founding the Corinthian congregation,

needs to see them reformed, we can't be surprised that churches need reforming regularly in history of the church.

Sometimes that reform is more in the nature of a revitalization,

but I think people have, especially in America, been too content to be satisfied with entertainment and with shallowness.

And we need a seriousness about God, about Christ, and about His Word,

and I think to be drawn again to a passionate interest in the Word is going to take a major reformation of the church today.

My hope is that this series will serve the church by causing people to reflect on what the church ought to be according to the Word of God.

The necessity of reforming the church, a teaching series with W. Robert Godfrey. Visit liganyear.org slash teaching series to learn more.

How do we judge people who have made a profession of faith in our presence perhaps, and then we've seen them later repudiated?

Well, that's the question before us today. Can a Christian, a genuine regenerated believer walk away from the faith?

Throughout church history, there has been a disagreement on this question.

Today, I'm renewing your mind. R.C. Stroll continues his series on reformed theology,

and he'll examine the debate over the doctrine known as perseverance of the saints.

And he'll show us that people who claim they lost their salvation never really had it.

We come now to our last session in this series on the nature of reformed theology,

and we've been looking at the Acroostic Tulip over the past few days,

and we've made adjustments to the terms that are incorporated in it in our last session.

We looked at the concept of irresistible grace, and I mentioned that I preferred the term effectual grace,

and before I leave that altogether, I just want to add a little concluding unscientific post-script to it by reading a brief entry from the Westminster Confession of Faith,

which is a historic doctrinal standard of reformed theology dating back to 17th century England,

where we have this reference to the doctrine of effectual calling.

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