{"id":3801,"date":"2014-11-30T09:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2014-12-07T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T12:15:34","slug":"wcf-chapter-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3801","title":{"rendered":"WCF: Chapter 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of Effectual Calling<\/p>\n<p><em>All those whom God hath predestined unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed time, effectually to call&#8230;\u00a0Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,&#8230;cannot be saved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lutheran understanding of the call of God seems more in line with the overall tenor of Scripture: there is one call unto salvation. \u00a0With some it is effectual, with others not. Yet it is God&#8217;s serious intent that it be effectual in all. &#8220;<em>Many<\/em> are called.&#8221; (Matthew 22:14) \u00a0The gospel &#8221; is the power of God for the salvation of <em>everyone<\/em> who believes.&#8221; (Romans 1:16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Effectual Calling All those whom God hath predestined unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed time, effectually to call&#8230;\u00a0Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,&#8230;cannot be saved. The Lutheran understanding of the call of God seems more in line with the overall tenor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCF: Chapter 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}