Sentences with word «sanctification»

He then can grow or increase in righteousness (this is the process of sanctification spoken of above and in James 2; see also 2 Cor.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

But they hint at the solution in so far as they contain the observation that an age which has attained more power of world control than any other longs for sanctification by a new sense of God.

At one extreme is the doctrine of the entire sanctification of the redeemed.

She can thus say that what Catholicism often understands as sanctification is very close to what Luther thinks of as sin.

2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Lutheranism canceled out the urgency of sanctification by giving the experience of justification the principal place in grace.

This emphasis on sanctification became the hallmark of Wesley's movement.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

But true sanctification means something quite different.

If we become the center of our marriage, and of our hopes, goals, and desires, then we lose sight of what is called sanctification in the Reformed theological tradition, namely, the process of being molded into Christ - likeness.

One place where there may be some Wesleyan influence in the manifesto is in the strong statements made about sanctification.

Yes, I think you, me, and Jeremy all agree that the Corinthians» not holding fast to the Resurrection that they initially believed was affecting their ongoing sanctification salvation.

And when I embark on the journey toward sanctification, I am singled out from all others by an unquenchable consciousness of moral responsibilities I alone can fulfill.

There are careful debates within confessional Christianity about the relationship of self - conception with sanctification, of sexual orientation with obedience to Christ.

If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant — when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.

Salvation in Ephesians 2:1 - 10 is not simply justification or receiving eternal life, but also includes sanctification (Ephesians 2:10) and glorification (Ephesians 2:6).

We are promised grace and mercy, and supernatural sanctification through the gift of the holy spirit.

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.

Another good post, Judaism went astray became a system of works versus trusting in God — crucified the Messiah, the Church became a corporate entity with a sacerdotal system of power — no one wants anything to do with it, we make all kinds of excuses to not become disciples of Christ Jesus, but we like our progressive sanctification just fine in the pew.

There is a double aspect: one is saved by being brought into a state of grace (or forgiveness or justification or even sanctification) instead of bondage to sin in this life, and by being brought into heaven instead of hell in the next life.

Such people have turned sanctification into a bad word not only for the population in general but also for many Christians.

One common idea among its promoters, for example, is that of social sanctification or «the leavening influences on the entire culture» spilling over from personal regeneration along Reconstructionist lines.

The one is just the amplification and sometimes grotesque holy sanctification of the other.

I think the greatest sanctification of my life happens far from fame, it's repetitive and practiced.

Which is why the believer needs sanctification and glorification immediately.

The Eastern Church believes in sanctification after death, and perhaps the doctrine of purgatory really asserts nothing more; but can Rome ever say that in speaking of it as «temporal punishment,» which the pope may in whole or part remit, it was in error?

If sanctification is His will for our lives, then being rid of all that is interfering with being set apart to Him becomes most important.

Ultimate salvation involves being purified from all sin, yet the great majority of Christians (arguably all) have not reached that state of true sanctification when they die.

It's obviously about both (as the Church has argued for two thousand years, incidentally, teaching that the three ends of marriage are procreation, marital friendship, and mutual sanctification).

The free self can not honestly deceive itself that it has attained perfect sanctification.

The sects emphasized sanctification at the expense of justification.

At the least, many Protestants are bringing justification and sanctification closer together.

Gordon Fee reminds me that the same 1961 change in the doctrinal statement deleted «entire» from the point treating sanctification - evangelicalization at the expense of distancing from holiness roots.

And for those of us who are Christ followers, part of the reason the world sees us the way they do is because we run around talking about hell all the time and trying to sell Christ to people instead of spending our time loving our own brethren and experiencing sanctification.

Sanctification sounds like moral development over time which is a natural human experience.

Haiku would be challenging but the big words like sanctification and justification would comprise the entire first line.

In response, TGC founders Tim Keller and Don Carson suggested that sanctification theology was at the heart of Tchividjian's departure, and that «the dispute was becoming increasingly sharp and divisive rather than moving toward greater unity.»

The pietists stressed the idea of individual sanctification and rejected love of «worldly» things.