We enthusiastically embrace the sovereignty of God in all things, including God’s grace in saving sinners. We affirm that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, not on the basis of foreseen faith but unconditionally, according to his sovereign good pleasure and will. We believe that God’s sovereignty over our salvation neither nullifies the responsibility of people to believe the gospel nor marginalizes the need and power of prayer and evangelism, but rather reinforces and establishes them as the ordained means by which God accomplishes his ordained ends. (Isaiah 46:10, John 1:12-13; John 6:37-44; John 10:25-30; Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:1-14; Ephesians 2:1-8; Philippians 2:12-13, Titus 3:3-7)