Forget Hallowe'en.
This is the day on which we remember how the Church was rescued from the institutional hopelessness of European politics and restored to some hope of understanding what God had revealed in his Word and his Son, the Word made flesh.
So let's have a quotation from a reformer. Here's John Calvin (yes, he whose name is associated with predestination - as any Biblical scholar's should be) nonetheless setting out the simple glories of God's invitation in Christ:
“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keeps us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief”
If the reader is confused as to why election is necessary with such a gaping gate of salvation available, the answer lies (as it does in Scripture) in the nature of the barrier represented in the last word of the quotation.
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