Ready to Give an Answer: A Catechism of Reformed Distinctives

Throughout the ages God has led His church ever deeper into the truth by way of controversy and strife. Ready to Give an Answer tells how one, small body of Reformed believers-the Protestant Reformed Churches- was born in a struggle to defend the sovereignty of God in salvation over against the false teaching of a well-meant gospel offer rooted in the corrupting theory of common grace, and it tells how, only twenty-five years later, this same denomination was almost destroyed, as once again the forces of Arminianism, clothed now in a conditional covenant, did battle with the doctrines of sovereign grace.

From these two controversies has emerges the distinctively scriptural Protestant Reformed teaching regarding the one and everlasting covenant of grace, that living and unbreakable bond of friendship and fellowship between God and His chosen people, a covenant purposed eternally, established unilaterally, and effected and maintained solely by the power of God's unconditional and particular grace.

A brief introduction by Professor Herman Hanko establishes the historic and doctrinal setting for each of the struggles. Then, in an easy-to-read-and-remember series of questions and answers, the authors draw evidence from Scripture and the confessions, contrasting the bankruptcy of a conditional covenant and its salvation offered to all who will believe to the richness of a covenant whose realization is unfettered by the will of man and of a grace that is always full and free.

Ready to Give an Answer will be of interest to all who love the cause of God and truth, for it is the story of sovereign grace, a story that gives all the glory to God, who preserves His cause in the midst of the world, and makes His truth to triumph.