Sentences with phrase «scriptural holiness»

Whatever was meant by the two phrases, it seems clear that some distinction was intended between reforming the nation and spreading «scriptural Holiness.»

and recorded as answer, «To reform the continent, and to spread scriptural Holiness over these lands.»

But thirty - two years later such distinction had so faded that Bishop McKendree could answer that «God's design in raising up the preachers called Methodists in America was to reform the continent by spreading scriptural holiness over the land.»

From a Wesleyan perspective, this centers on Wesley's idea that the purpose of Methodism was «to reform the nation, particularly the Church; and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land.»

It is how scriptural holiness first takes root in the soul through faith alone by grace alone.

The Wesleyan emphasis on spreading scriptural holiness, for example, calls all Christians to continuous conversion to the true and the good.

But we would aim to make as great a contribution to the salvation of the world in this new century as Wesley made in England in the eighteenth century and Methodism made in the United States in the nineteenth century as it spread scriptural holiness across the land.

Not exact matches

My exhortation (to all of us) from the Bell conversation is that we (re) learn how the scriptural truths of the love of God and the holiness of God are held simultaneously in the scriptures.