Romans 8.28-30

December 10, 2018

Jeff Harrington

One of the main controversies in the evangelical world is the interplay of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. Is everything in our lives predestined so that freewill is an illusion or are we truly free to choose our destiny? Perhaps, in the course of arguing over the details of “how” predestination and election work, we lose sight of “why” the doctrine is presented to us in the first place. In other words, we are so busy arguing about the "how" that we fail to really consider the "why"? This sermon tries to figure out the “why” even if we are still confused about the “how”.