(1) But Jesus proclaims the coming kingdom of God as prevenient grace to the poor and sinners.(2) It was Wesley's doctrine of universal, prevenient grace which led him to hope that the heathen are u2018taught of God by his inward voice all the essentials of true religionu2019.(3) But such a questioner would indeed be a Pelagian, showing by his very question that he regarded the human side of the achievement as the prevenient , the conditioning, the determinative.(4) In doing so, they are reminded of God's prevenient grace.(5) But, of course, if the will determines itself only in and through such choices, free from any prevenient natural order, then it too is in itself nothing.(6) Yet God's all-wise, necessary and patient method of working out this intention in time is through calling individual human beings one-by-one to himself through prevenient grace and election.(7) To illustrate the extent of God's prevenient love, Paul points out how rarely one person is willing to die for another, even an exceptionally good person.
