We believe in the 5 doctrines that summarize the essence of the difference between the Reformed on the one hand, and the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians (Arminians) on the other hand.

1. Radical Depravity: The human being, due to his historical fall in Adam, is a sinner. The corruption of sin has saturated the most intimate corners of his heart and nature, even his will, in such a way that man is unable to seek God, please God or initiate his own salvation. Everything he does is defiled by sin, and he cannot come to Christ for salvation unless God’s sovereign grace works in power to call him, regenerate him, and bring him to the feet of Christ. However, the sinner’s inability is primarily moral in nature, and he cannot come to Christ because, in the first place, he does not want to come to Christ, and is therefore responsible and guilty for his lack of faith and obedience.
2. The Sovereign Election: God, before the foundation of the world, chose a great number of people to ordain them beforehand for eternal salvation, not based on any merit or by the faith that he had foreseen in them, but by design of His own will, according to His pleasure, to the praise of the glory of His grace. Salvation is of the Lord! However, this does not diminish man’s responsibility in the least, nor does it take away the validity and authenticity of “secondary causes” that are means that God uses to carry out His sovereign will.
3. The Particular Redemption: In the eternal decrees of God, the Father, in His love for the Son, gifted to the Son a great number of people who would be redeemed by Him for His special possession and for the eternal glory of the Father. In the fullness of time, the Son came to earth and carried out the redemption of this particular people to acquire them and bring them to glory with Him. Christ died with the specific intention of saving these people. His death was a real substitution, being a penal satisfaction for the sins of His people, guaranteeing their salvation, and establishing the basis of their eternal redemption. However, Christ’s Atonement also established the basis for the universal offer of the gospel to all people, so that all who desire to be saved may have hope that there is enough power in the blood to save them. The atonement is limited in its redemptive application, not in its power.
4. The Effective Call: The Holy Spirit of God, during the lives of people chosen by grace, powerfully calls them into communion with God by means of uniting them effectively to Christ by faith. All the elect will be regenerated by virtue of the inner calling when they embrace the gospel. The Holy Spirit applies all the benefits of Christ’s redemptive work to them in such a way that it not only makes it possible for them to be saved but actually saves them. However, the outward calling of the preaching of the gospel is for every person without exception, since all are commanded by God and responsible to repent and have faith in Christ.
5. The Preservation of the Saints: All who have been chosen, redeemed and called, having been saved by regeneration and justification, will certainly be preserved and kept by the power of God in such a way that the Lord himself assures that they will persevere in faith, obedience, and holiness to the end. Although the true believer may fall into sin for a time, and consequently, under the holy displeasure and discipline of his heavenly Father, he cannot totally or finally fall away from the faith. However, this does not deny the reality of false professions and false converts who, although they appear to be true Christians for a time, ultimately prove that they were not born of the Spirit through their rebellion in departing from the faith.

Clarification: In addition to embracing the Doctrines of Grace, we abhor hyper-Calvinism. God is 100% sovereign in the salvation of man, and man is 100% responsible to strive to enter the narrow door and obey God. This truth is a paradox, but it is not a contradiction. The sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man are two truths that complement each other in perfect harmony. Affirming them guards us from the heresy of Pelagianism on the one hand, and hyper-Calvinism on the other. Historical Calvinism affirms man’s full responsibility for salvation by affirming that salvation is entirely by grace.