Common Grace, Well Meant Offer
This is a supplemental class to chapters 9 and 10 just covered of the Westminster Confession addressing a distinctive of our church: denying “Common Grace” and the “Well Meant Offer”. Resources partially shared in class:
1. https://www.trinityfoundation.org/PDF/The%20Trinity%20Review%200055a%20TheMythofCommonGrace.pdf
2. https://www.opc.org/GA/free_offer.html#Minority
3. Quote shared during the meeting: “Nevertheless, great as he was, I consider Kuyper’s movement to be a dead end for American Reformed Christians for both theological and political reasons. Politically, Kuyper worked within the bounds of a small continental European nation, with a homogeneous society and a political tradition that have little in common with the American Empire, an offspring of the British Empire. Theologically, Kuyper’s movement used a flawed concept of “common grace” as the basis for cooperation between believers and nonbelievers in the public arena, a concept that continues to bear bad fruit both in the Netherlands and in churches of Dutch descent in this country, because it has been used to blur the antithesis between believer and unbeliever, and between Revelation and human efforts to grope for the truth.”
–William Edgar, “Reformed Systematic Theology Textbooks: Handmaid to the Enlightenment Privatization of Faith”, in Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (Pittsburgh: RPTS, Spring 2016, Vol. 2, Issue 2) , 8: Online: http://www.rpts.edu/pdf/Reformed%20Presbyterian%20Theological%20Journal%20%28Vol.%202,%20Iss.%202,%20Spring%202016%29.pdf
4. rpcga.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/RPCGA-BCO-2016.pdf
5. PRPC presentation for Presbytery relations on these topics (see attached pdf).
Westminster Confession Class01
Westminster Confession Class02
Of the Holy Scripture
Why We Use the KJV Pt. 1
Why We Use the KJV, Pt. 2
Why We Use the KJV Pt. 3
Of God and the Holy Trinity
Decree, Creation, Providence
Of the Fall, Sin, Punishment
God’s Covenant with Man, Pt. 1
God’s Covenant with Man, Pt. 2
Of Christ the Mediator
Free Will & Effectual Calling
Common Grace, Well Meant Offer
Justified, Adopted, Sanctified
Saving Faith and Repentance
Works, Perseverance, Assurance
Law, Liberty, Conscience
Of Religious Worship
Of the Sabbath Day
Exclusive Psalmody Explained
Acapella Singing Explained
Tithing is Not “Typical”
Oaths, Vows, Civil Magistrate
Of Marriage and Divorce
Of Church, Communion of Saints
Of the Sacraments and Bapitsm
Of Baptism Pt. 2 (Infants)
Of the Lord’s Supper
Of Church Censures(Discipline)
Of Synods and Councils
Of Death Resurrection Judgment

