For anyone who was planning to hear Mike Gendron speak at the Great Lakes Prophecy Conference in Appleton, WI, Sept. 11-12, please be advised that he has been disinvited. The reason for canceling Mike's appearance was because of an article he wrote: Why Evangelize If God Has Already Chosen? Pastor Dwight Douville said, "As you explain your doctrine of election, I see the main points of Calvinism throughout...right now in our Calvary Chapel movement this is a hot topic and therefore I am sorry but we cannot have you as a speaker."

For 25 years of ministry Mike has pointed people to the supreme authority of God's inerrant, infallible Word for knowing truth and exposing error. He has never encouraged people to embrace John Calvin or "Calvinism." Instead he exhorts people to be good Bereans and to test every man's teaching with Scripture. Roman Catholic apologists want Evangelicals to read and embrace the "early church fathers" because many of their Catholic dogmas cannot be found in Scripture. For the same reason it would not be judicious for us to point people to Calvin or any of the Reformers. Our theology must be established and defended by the Word of God alone. Tragically, the church continues to be divided over the sovereignty of God in salvation. Human pride has an intense dislike of the notion that God controls and rules over everything He has created. 

Opponents of divine election teach that man has the free will to choose God and come to Him for salvation. Yet God's Word declares that unbelievers are held captive by Satan to do his will (2 Tim. 2:26). It was Jesus, not Calvin, who said, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him" (John 6:44). It was Paul, not Calvin, who wrote: "no one seeks God" and "the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ" (Rom. 3:11; 2 Cor. 4:4). It was Paul, not Calvin, who wrote: "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14). 

God is most glorified in salvation when we recognize salvation is all of Him from beginning to end (Phil. 1:6). The only thing man contributes to his salvation is his sin, which nailed our sinless Savior to the cross. It is our Sovereign Lord who chooses, predestines, calls, draws, brings to life, grants repentance and faith, justifies, forgives, redeems, glorifies, and secures all of His elect. As trophies of His sovereign grace, each of His adopted children will sing His praises throughout all eternity. God alone is worthy of all praise and glory and honor!

We welcome your comments after watching Mike's message on DVD or reading his article Why Evangelize If God Has Already Chosen?

 

 

Iran's supreme leader hailed the Iranian masses for demanding the destruction of Israel and America, and said he hoped that God would answer their prayers. In a viciously anti-US speech, delivered in Tehran four days after Iran and the world powers signed an accord designed to thwart Iran's nuclear program, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised "the slogans of the people of Iran" which "indicated what directions they're heading for," according to the English translation of his speech by Iran's Press TV.

Khamenei also vowed in the speech, which was broadcast live on state television, that the nuclear agreement with the major powers would not change Iran's policy against the "arrogant American government" nor would it change the Islamic Republic's policy of supporting its "friends" in the region. Read more.