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However, they are only able to ask because He first comes to them with prevenient grace.

One must understand, however, what the doctrine of prevenient grace actually teaches.

They see the ceremony additionally as a celebration of God's prevenient grace.

Likewise, without prevenient grace no sinner would be able to ask God for help.

Prevenient grace, or the grace that "goes before" us, is given to all people.

He was a strong believer of prevenient grace but not at the expense of total depravity.

Arminians assert that Christ comes to each person with prevenient grace, and if they are willing for him to enter, he enters them.

Infant baptism is particularly illustrative of the Methodist doctrine of prevenient grace.

In particular, prevenient grace is seen in many of these systems as giving humans back the freedom to follow God in one way or another.

Prevenient grace is innate from birth.

Instead, they believe that God's prevenient grace is equally provided to all human beings alike, drawing them toward His love and salvation.

Related concepts include: Sola gratia, actual grace, and prevenient grace.

Orthodox theology teaches prevenient grace, meaning that God makes the first movement toward man, and that salvation is impossible from our own will alone.

Hera arrived through the back door, observed the prevenient crowd, and zeroed in on Mr. Pompeii.

Wesley also clarified the doctrine of prevenient grace and preached the ability of Christians to attain to perfection.

God grants all sinners prevenient grace (prevenient meaning "coming before").

Prevenient grace was the theological underpinning of his belief that all persons were capable of being saved by faith in Christ.

Thomas argues that God offers man both a prevenient grace to enable him to supernaturally good works, and cooperative grace within the same.

"Prevenient" means "comes before."

After a believer has under the influence of prevenient grace made the faithful decision to follow Christ, God regenerates them spiritually.

Prevenient grace allows those tainted by sin to nevertheless make a truly free choice to accept or reject God's salvation in Christ.

Human free will is limited by original sin, though God's prevenient grace restores to humanity the ability to accept God's call of salvation.

Thus, salvation is made to occur initially by God's prevenient grace and then one's free will, and only then is one chosen to be saved.

Methodist theology adapts the concept by stating that humans, entirely sinful and totally depraved, can only "do good" through God's prevenient grace.

Once God has reached out in this "first grace" or "prevenient grace," each person may accept or reject this grace.