Election Preaching And Missions

In the December issue of the Reformed Journal, Harry R. Boer writes about the importance of election in the preaching of the gospel on the mission field as well as in the church. He points out, and correctly so, that when Paul told the Ephesians that he had not shrunk from declaring to them "the whole counsel of God," he meant all the essentials of the gospel, including the doctrine of election. He goes on to say that "Election, in Paul's view is a part, and a very necessary part, of the...