Understanding Christianity

Is God’s grace merely an “offer” that can be accepted or rejected. . . or is God’s grace His active, sovereign, and unconditional favor that is actually conferred or granted upon the elect? Is God’s grace effectual and irresistible or merely a prevenient or enabling grace? I understand the Bible to teach that because of man’s deadness in sin and total inability, God must actually overcome that spiritual condition with sovereign, efficacious grace that is more than just the gospel appeal. There must be a mysterious, instantaneous, internal work of the Holy Spirit directly on the soul of fallen man. The mind, will, and emotions must be changed inwardly by sovereign means in order to make a person willing to come to faith in Christ. In other words, the grace that is both necessary and sufficient is an irresistible, conquering grace—not a mere offer or simply the presentation of the fact of the gospel. Provisionists affirm that the gospel appeal or the preached Word is sufficient to do what it’s supposed to do