Common Grace, Well Meant Offer

calendar_today February 3, 2022
menu_book John 6:37
person Grant Van Leuven

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

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today September 1, 2021
menu_book 2 Timothy 3 Hebrews 5:12

Westminster Confession Class02

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today September 16, 2021
menu_book Proverbs 16:31 Romans 12:2

Of the Holy Scripture

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today September 22, 2021

Why We Use the KJV Pt. 1

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today October 6, 2021
menu_book Deuteronomy 8:3 Matthew 4:4

Why We Use the KJV, Pt. 2

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today October 13, 2021
menu_book John 10:35 Revelation 22:16-19

Why We Use the KJV Pt. 3

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today October 27, 2021
menu_book Isaiah 59:21

Of God and the Holy Trinity

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today November 4, 2021
menu_book Romans 11:33-36

Decree, Creation, Providence

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today November 10, 2021
menu_book Romans 8:28-30

Of the Fall, Sin, Punishment

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today December 1, 2021
menu_book Ecclesiastes 7:29 Romans 5:12-19

God’s Covenant with Man, Pt. 1

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today December 8, 2021
menu_book Isaiah 28:15-18 Romans 5:12-19

God’s Covenant with Man, Pt. 2

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today December 15, 2021

Of Christ the Mediator

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today January 12, 2022
menu_book 1 Corinthians 1:30 1 Timothy 2:5

Free Will & Effectual Calling

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today January 19, 2022
menu_book Ephesians 1:5-11 Romans 8:29-30

Common Grace, Well Meant Offer

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today February 3, 2022
menu_book John 6:37

Justified, Adopted, Sanctified

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today February 10, 2022
menu_book Ezekiel 16:1-14 Romans 8:28-39

Saving Faith and Repentance

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today February 16, 2022
menu_book 2 Corinthians 7:9 Acts 20:21

Works, Perseverance, Assurance

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today February 23, 2022
menu_book Ephesians 2:8-10 Romans 8:30

Law, Liberty, Conscience

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today March 9, 2022
menu_book Romans 7:12-16

Of Religious Worship

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today March 23, 2022
menu_book Hebrews 10:23-25

Testimony: Conversion, Sabbath

person Ron Renner
calendar_today March 30, 2022
menu_book Acts 16:31

Of the Sabbath Day

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today March 30, 2022
menu_book Isaiah 58:13-14

Exclusive Psalmody Explained

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today April 27, 2022
menu_book Ephesians 5:19

Acapella Singing Explained

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today May 4, 2022

Tithing is Not “Typical”

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today May 19, 2022

Oaths, Vows, Civil Magistrate

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today May 25, 2022
menu_book Romans 13:1-10

Of Marriage and Divorce

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today June 1, 2022

Of Church, Communion of Saints

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today June 8, 2022
menu_book Hebrews 10:23-25

Of the Sacraments and Bapitsm

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today July 20, 2022
menu_book Hebrews 9:13 Romans 4:11

Of Baptism Pt. 2 (Infants)

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today July 27, 2022
menu_book Acts 2:37-39

Of the Lord’s Supper

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today August 3, 2022

Of Church Censures(Discipline)

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today August 10, 2022

Of Synods and Councils

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today August 24, 2022
menu_book Acts 21

Of Death Resurrection Judgment

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today September 22, 2022
menu_book Revelation 22:20

Wrap Up Class and Resurrection

person Grant Van Leuven
calendar_today September 29, 2022