Sanctification

condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” Paul’s opening to Chapter 8 is indicative of the participatory nature of justification realized in sanctification. Those who are in Christ Jesus are no long defined by the past, but rather are defined a future reality being realized through the Spirit of life. Spirit-enable participation in the life of Christ is one of transformation. Continuing Paul…

justification and sanctification through several sermons of John Wesley. In the sermon Original Sin, our sinful nature is depicted, “Now God saw that all this, the whole thereof, was evil; -- contrary to moral rectitude; contrary to the nature of God, which necessarily includes all good…”. God saw us for who we truly were but still allowed His relationship with us to move passed legal justification, which we truly deserve. Repentance is also a topic that will be noted in regard to…

thousands. He was known for preaching sanctification and holy living. The purpose of this paper is to explain Mr. Brengle’s view on sanctification. (Parenthetical citation 1).…

Several “fields of care” are related to sanctification. They include: the heroic struggle, martyrs and heroes, and a sense of community loss. Foote’s example of the heroic struggle is The National Cemetery at Gettysburg. He uses presidential assassinations as examples of martyrs and heroes. Lastly…

John Lynch overall said that God sanctifies us. He believes it is our will for us, according to 1 Thessalonians 4:3. This word sanctification is related to the word saint, which has to do with holiness. “Sanctify” is something to set apart for special use in order to make a person holy. He commented on the greatness which is the fact that Biola has accountability groups. He said that accountability groups are great but a negative factor is that it can keep Christians from sharing what they are…

the gospel to the Jews and Gentiles from condemnation to justification to sanctification to sanctification to glorification to glorification. God’s plan was for salvation and for the exhortation of the believers. God’s plan for our salvation has three parts in this order: Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification. Justification is God’s unconditional love for us through Jesus Christ’s death on the cross, Sanctification is the reciprocation of our love toward Jesus and Glorification is…

Sanctification tells us how a person grows in the Christian life. Sanctification tells us that by the Holy Spirit the same God works in us helping us to leave our sin behind and begin a new radically different kind of life. Sanctification tells us that the same Christ is our Lord who commands us to live for him. Justification-faith and sanctification-action must be distinguished from each other but they can separated. This…

Relational Holiness in Wynkoop Almost immediately following John Wesley’s death his essential teaching, Christian perfection, was being redefined by his contemporaries in more strictly western theological conceptions than Wesley had ever intended. As has already been seen, Wesley was more profoundly impacted by the teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Fathers than those of the Western Church. Nearly 200 years after Wesley, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop sought to reclaim the core of his conception of…

related to the problem of sanctification gap that Lovelace characterizes this evangelical tradition. Although evangelicalism is suffering the problem of sanctification gap in discipleship, I have to recognize that its commitment to evangelism and mitigation of regeneration might increase conversion and mission opportunities globally. The vigorous commitment to the Great Commission is the one key distinctive of the evangelicalism that I am embracing. I believe the sanctification gap will not…

The doctrines of repentance, justification, regeneration, and sanctification are each a part of the ordo solutis, or the order of salvation. They are each a part of the journey toward the “restoration of God’s image in our lives” (Book of Discipline ¶102 50). They each speak of a salvation that is not a onetime event, but is marked by a lifetime of faithful response to God’s grace. That is another characteristic they each share: they are all preceded and facilitated by God’s grace. God’s loving…