The Path to Holiness

by Andrew Murray

Discover the "divine expression of the Christian life"--holiness--in Andrew Murray's classic devotional study. Delve into the Word of God to learn what God's holiness is and what ours is to be. As timely now as when it was written over a century ago, the thirty-one chapters equip and exhort believers to "Be holy, because [God is] holy" (1 Peter 1:16). The Path to Holiness examines both the Old and New Testaments helping believers progress along the path of sanctification and grow in a holy lifestyle before God. Originally titled Holy in Christ, this updated edition includes Andrew Murray's original applications and prayers.

Genres: Christian Living

222 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

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Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.

He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).

Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.

Reviews

[Jeremy Utley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic daily devotional. Well worth 15 min a day for 31 days. Powerfully illuminates God's plan and provision for making holy. It stirred my desire afresh to see His desire fulfilled in me!

Think this is an updated version of "Holy in Christ," and I appreciated the more contemporary use language mostly, though a few times I went back to "Holy in Christ" for explanation of a confusing point.

[Tony Ferguson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved loved this book. I think Holiness is a very misunderstood word and this book tracks the word in an easy to read manner from Genesis to Revelation. In a time in which the world needs rest we can find it in our relationship with God when he rests in us and when "our soul ceases from it's own efforts" and rests in Him.

[Annalisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not sure that I would call Andrew Murray an intellectual, but he certainly addresses his topic thoroughly. Although this is another of his books that has been updated, I think that I can say that his approach is meant for the average Christian, because his applications are remarkably personal. Murray's source is singularly trustworthy: his only text is the Bible. Chapter by chapter, he brings holiness out of some of its abstraction by illustrating its relationships with the many other facets of our Christian life.

[Jonathan]

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