Sentences with phrase «called sanctification»

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Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

The Christian disciple is not one who has arrived at perfection; he is «on the way» — and this requires what traditionally is called «mortification» or the killing of whatever is unworthy and the «sanctification» or development of whatever is good.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

In the old days, they used to call this «holiness» or «sanctification» — both words we don't hear much because they lost some meaning by their misuse perhaps.

No matter what you call it, theosis, sanctification, divinization — the full recovery of the image of God in which we were created is our destination.

The life of Christians who, by the grace of God, have responded to that call is to be a life of holiness, which is to say a life of sanctification.

Numerous sects today — sometimes called holiness groups and sometimes Pentecostal, although the two terms are not exactly synonymous make much of the experience called «entire sanctification.»

His teachings on the subject combined the spiritual athleticism of William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of life.

I am learning to look at my battle to keep from giving in to my temptations and call it «sanctification.»

If we were to include these other four terms inside Paul's chain of events, the list would look like this: Foreknowledge, predestination, proclaiming the gospel, faith, regeneration, calling, justification, faithfulness, sanctification, glorification.

After one is justified, then one's sanctification (sometimes called ongoing or progressive justification) does involve works.

[2] Hoover had visited revival meetings in the United States and was aware of a pamphlet from India calling for a «clear and definitive baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire» [3] as a necessary supplement to justification and sanctification.

Those who call salvation by faith «easy believism» miss the fact that true conversion will always result in sanctification and a life of good works.