Okay, so this is not exactly a tweet, but it’s close. It is hard to communicate anything of consequence given the limitation of 140 characters, so we’ll expand that limit to 140 words.

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Despite 2,000 years of teaching the doctrines of grace, it is amazing how many professing Evangelicals still cannot represent them accurately. Simply stated:

Total Depravity. Man—through and after the fall—is unable and unwilling to choose what is morally right in any given circumstance apart from God’s grace.

Unconditional Election. Those undeserving individuals upon whom God freely and unconditionally bestowed salvation by grace through faith.

Limited Atonement. Christ’s sacrifice for the sheep (John 10:11), those whom the Father gave Him (17:2, 6, 24).

Irresistible Grace. The effective application of the Holy Spirit’s working within God’s chosen people to bring about regeneration.

Perseverance of the Saints. The manifestation of the covenant between the Godhead that Christ will loose none whom the Father has given Him and will raise them up at the last day.