A guest blog by Steven Harper. “Christian perfection is the aim of the Christian life, but because we have so caricatured the idea most people run from it.” Read More...

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John Wesley taught that people cannot have the kind of the faith that brings them into a new or deeper experience of God's grace unless they first had "a Divine evidence and conviction... that God hath promised it in the Holy Scripture." Read More...

Tags: Entire Sanctification, Christian Perfection, holiness theology, Scripture, John Wesley

John Wesley responds to this objection: ‘But surely we cannot be saved from sin, while we dwell in a sinful body.’ Read More...

Tags: Quotations, Christian Perfection, Entire Sanctification, holiness theology

Here are some quotes I recently shared on Twitter, from Cleansed and Abiding: A Proposed View of Christian Perfection by James-Michael Smith. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a fresh re-interpretation of Wesley’s doctrine of Christian Perfection — and for anyone who wonders about it.
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John Wesley said: “"Where Christian perfection is not strongly and explicitly preached, there is seldom any remarkable blessing from God….” Read More...

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“What is then the perfection of which man is capable while he dwells in a corruptible body?” Read More...

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A quote from John Wesley: Christians have “the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path.” Read More...

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