Somehow in the class discussion the issue of the church sponsorship of PLNU arose. A bright young lady said quite out of the blue, "I am not a Nazarene yet I am thankful that it is the Church of the Nazarene that sponsors this college." I would like to argue that it is important to keep the relationship between PLNU and the Church of the Nazarene strong.
I can call myself both ecumenical and denominational. I believe that the two categories can be complementary and not oppositional. An ecumenism that is not based on a definite doctrinal and denominational foundation is what I would call Brand X Christianity and Brand X Christianity tends to be shallow, rootless, and thoughtless.
(More to follow later.)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Best Definition of the Life of Holiness
This quotation is taken from an article by Frank G. Carver published in Wesleyan Theological Journal 22.2 (Fall 1987), 7-23.
Entire sanctification can be defined as that moment in one's Christian pilgrimage when the Holy Spirit brings one all the way to grace, when in a moment of conscious faith-commitment one decisively and once for all shifts from all reliance on human strength and wisdom in 'Christian' living to a sole dependence on the Spirit of Christ for a holy life, from a confused and partially flesh-based spiritual life to a full commitment to a Spirit-grounded existence.
Entire sanctification can be defined as that moment in one's Christian pilgrimage when the Holy Spirit brings one all the way to grace, when in a moment of conscious faith-commitment one decisively and once for all shifts from all reliance on human strength and wisdom in 'Christian' living to a sole dependence on the Spirit of Christ for a holy life, from a confused and partially flesh-based spiritual life to a full commitment to a Spirit-grounded existence.
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