# Effectual calling

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{{short description|God calling a person to himself}}
'''Effectual calling''' (or '''effective calling'''<ref name=Grudem692 />), in [Calvinist](/source/Calvinism) [Christian](/source/Christian_theology) [soteriology](/source/soteriology), is a stage in the ''[ordo salutis](/source/ordo_salutis)'' in which God calls a person to himself. It is connected with, but different from ''external calling'', in which a person hears the [gospel message](/source/Good_news_(Christianity)).

[Wayne Grudem](/source/Wayne_Grudem) suggests that it is a summons from the [King](/source/Christ_the_King) of the universe that has "such power that it brings about the response that it asks for in people's hearts."<ref name=Grudem692>{{cite book|last=Grudem|first=Wayne|author-link=Wayne Grudem|title=Systematic Theology|year=1994|publisher=[IVP](/source/InterVarsity_Press)|page=692}}</ref> Grudem appeals to the story of [Lydia](/source/Lydia_of_Thyatira): according to [Acts](/source/Book_of_Acts) 16:14, "The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message" ([NIV](/source/NIV)).<ref>Grudem, ''Systematic Theology'', p. 693.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Reformed Christianity}}
*[Irresistible grace](/source/Irresistible_grace)
*[Prevenient grace](/source/Prevenient_grace)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.pbministries.org/books/gill/Doctrinal_Divinity/Book_6/book6_12.htm "Of Effectual Calling"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050624073539/http://www.pbministries.org/books/gill/Doctrinal_Divinity/Book_6/book6_12.htm |date=2005-06-24 }} from [John Gill's](/source/John_Gill_(theologian)) ''Body of Doctrinal Divinity''

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