Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7072. Progressive sanctification is the part of this doctrine most Christians have heard about, and it is the part that feels true to experience. We are being changed, slowly, unevenly, over a lifetime. What fewer believers have been taught is that Scripture also speaks of sanctification as something already accomplished, finished, and never to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4021. How does the Spirit sanctifies us? I love the question because the answer takes us straight to the heart of how God changes a person. To say that the Spirit sanctifies us is to say that holiness is not something I wring out of myself by gritted teeth and willpower, but something God…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11108 The spiritual disciplines are the ordinary, repeated practices through which believers place themselves in the way of God’s grace so that they may grow to know and love Him more. They are not a ladder we climb to earn God’s favour, and they are not religious performances that impress Him. They are the…