We are Calvinistic: we are that part of evangelical Protestantism holding to the fundamentals of the faith, but maintaining doctrines which make us distinct from certain other evangelicals. We stress the sovereignty of God which embraces everything that comes into the biblical picture of God as Lord and King in His world, the One who “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph. 1:11), directing every process and ordering every event for the fulfilling of His own eternal plan. We believe that all of humanity is affected by sin (original sin) which renders it unwilling and unable to seek reconciliation with God, the Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God, the Father, has unconditionally elected (chosen) from eternity past those who by His grace will be saved. We believe that God, the Father, sent His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in order to accomplish the redemption of His people (the Elect). We also believe that God, the Father and God, the Son, sent His Holy Spirit to irresistibly and effectually call His Elect unto salvation in Jesus Christ and to preserve them in Christ so that their eternal salvation can never thereafter be lost.