The word calvinist has many connotations. Some are disenfranchised by what they think of Calvin. Others limit Calvinism to the “Five Points.” Calvinism, however, is a vision of God—a vision that every father, mother, son, or daughter, even every church leader, must have their eye fixed upon.

The Calvinist, in a word, is the man who sees God. He has caught sight of the ineffable Vision, and he will not let it fade for a moment from his eyes–God in nature, God in history, God in grace. Everywhere he sees God in His mighty stepping, everywhere he feels the working of His mighty arm, the throbbing of His mighty heart…Calvinism is just Christianity. The super-naturalism for which Calvinism stands is the very breath of the nostrils of Christianity; without it Christianity cannot exist…Calvinism thus emerges to our sight as nothing more or less than the hope of the world.

—B.B. Warfield