Sanctification - Topic Continued

Sanctification: A Process of Growth

For those of you who were unable to make the High School Bible Study last night, we continued our discussion of "What Does It Mean to be Saved?" Over the course of the semester we have looked at our deep sense of sin and the problems that arise out of it and how God saves us. We have learned that he calls us all by name to be his saved people as a result of nothing that we have done, how he calls us out of death and regenerates our hearts, how he converts us and we respond in faith and repentance, and how we are then justified before his sight through Christ's life and death, and finally how we are then adopted into his family and treated as sons. This week, we looked at what is called "Sanctification," which is defined in the Westminster Shorter Catechism as "... the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

We discussed what the process looks like and how it is more than mere moralism. We aren't setting these goals and trying to meet them, but rather, we have understood what Christ did for us on the cross, and how he has freed us to follow him.

The RUF Campus Minister at Ole Miss, Les Newsom, wrote a great article about Sanctification. It is written with the college student in mind, but it is very applicable and well written. You can download the article here.


When you have finished reading the article, tell us what you think.