The Language of Election

This is a classic theological problem that became very sharp-edged at certain points in the Reformation. Part of the problem here is that the language of election is very much Israel language. It's very, it goes back to Deuteronomy and to the call of Abraham. And when the New Testament is retrieving that, it's retrieving something which isn't primarily about how this person gets saved. The way in which God is using this, what we've called before the scandal of particularity, to reach out into the world.