It has been a gnawing issue that has come up multiple times. How al l the doctrines of grace apply and relate to one another. Questions about election, predestination, salvation, repentance, water baptism, Holy Spirit baptism, sanctification, etc. seem to be constant. In my years here on Apostolic Friends, I've wrestled with these very same topics. Recently, I've come to a more systematic belief regarding how all of these doctrines of grace relate to one another as a whole with regards to our final salvation. I call this, the Apostolic Order of Redemption. I'll list it here for your review and consideration. Please share your thoughts:
1. Election (God's choice of a covenant people to be saved according to His sovereign will, purpose, and foreknowledge)
2. Predestination (God's predetermined glory for His chosen Elect people)
3. Atonement (Christ's work of satisfying the demands of the law for all men)
4. Propitiation (Christ's satisfying God's wrath against the sins of all men)
5. Prevenient Grace (the drawing of the lost through the Holy Spirit)
6. Conversion (faith, repentance & water baptism)
7. Justification (imputed righteousness)
8. Regeneration (being born again of the Spirit)
9. Adoption (membership in God's family)
10. Sanctification (the act of taking part in the divine nature and the process whereby we are conformed into the image and likeness of Christ)
11. Death (the intermediate state wherein the soul of the saint of God is present with the Lord in Heaven awaiting resurrection & glorification)
12. Resurrection & Glorification (receiving a resurrected and transformed body in glorified form that is fashioned perfectly into the image of Christ)
Each spiritual reality opens up to the next as they are experienced accumulatively.
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