Order of Salvation (Ordo Salutis)

Question 1

Election

Answer 1

Election is an act of God before creation in which he chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of his sovereign good pleasure.

Rom 8:29-30
Rm 9:11-13

Question 2

Gospel Call

Answer 2

Effective calling is an act of God the Father, speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel, in which he summons people to himself in such a way that they respond in saving faith.

Rom 10:13-15

Rom 8:30

Question 3

Regeneration

Answer 3

Regeneration is a secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life to us.

1 Cor 5:17

John 3:3

Question 4

Conversion

Answer 4

Conversion is our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation.

1 John 1:9

John 3:16

Question 5

Justification

Answer 5

Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight.

2 Cor 5:21

Rom 4:5

Question 6

Adoption

Answer 6

Adoption is an act of God whereby he makes us members of his family.

Rom 8:15

Eph 1:4-5

John 1:12

Question 7

Sanctification

Answer 7

Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives.

Phil 2:12-13

Phil 1:6

Rom 8:29

2 Cor 3:18

Question 8

Perseverance

Answer 8

The perseverance of the saints means that all those who are truly born again will be kept by God’s power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who persevere until the end have been truly born again.

Phil 1:6

Rom 8:38-39

Question 9

Death

Answer 9

The final outcome of living in a fallen world, which God uses to complete our sanctification and our union with Christ.

Rom 5:12

Phil 1:23

Question 10

Glorification

Answer 10

Glorification is the final step in the application of redemption. It will happen when Christ returns and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers for all time who have died, and reunites them with their souls, and changes the bodies of all believers who remain alive, thereby giving all believers at the same time perfect resurrection bodies like his own.

1 Cor 15:51 (-53)

Rom 8:30