Status Updates From Holiness

It took me some time and effort to get on Webster's wavelength, but lots of good stuff here. I appreciate his insistence upon a grounded and relational understanding of God's holiness, and I find the discussion of holy reason a welcome reflection as I begin my studies this year.

“‘Grace’ — which is, of course, nothing other than a shorthand term for the great history of God’s mercy, at whose centre is the passion and resurrection of Christ and his sending of the Spirit — is the gift of life, and life is active holiness in company with the holy God.”

“Sanctification in the Spirit’ means: it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And ‘Christ lives in me’ means: by the Spirit’s power, I am separated from my self-caused self-destruction, and given a new holy self, enclosed by, and wholly referred to, the new Adam in whom I am and in whom I act.”