This illustration from Wilbur Rees brilliantly expresses (and exposes) what a lot of us have been thinking: I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t [...]
discipleship
Justification and Sanctification
I have been reading “The Cost of Discipleship,” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This is a brilliant book. Following is a lengthy quote about the difference between justification and sanctification. Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God’s activity in the present and future. [...]