Let Grace Define Your Pursuit of Holiness
Jessalyn Hutto
There is a great temptation to come to the Word of God and view it as a mere rule book for the Christian life. After all, it contains a plethora of commands and instructions for the people of God. We can easily find ourselves focusing on all of the things we can do and immediately apply to our lives. Meanwhile, beautiful, gospel-saturated passages of Scripture quickly become small blips on our spiritual radar as we hastily grasp for more ways we can practically live a more “Christ-like” life.The futility of this type of Bible study is that it tempts us to view the pursuit of holiness as a work we must accomplish on our own rather than a natural fruit of the salvation provided to us by Jesus.
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