First Things First

Pastor Tullian:

The greatest threat facing the church is not that we take the commands of God lightly. That’s a surface threat. The deep, under the surface threat (which produces the surface threat) is that we take the announcement of God in the gospel too lightly. The only people who take the commands of God lightly are those who take the gospel lightly–who don’t revel in and rejoice over what J. Gresham Machen called the triumphant indicative. Beholding necessarily leads to becoming.” Or to put it another way, this wonderful and neglected view of justification by grace alone through faith alone in the finished work of Christ alone that I am championing does not deny the impulse toward holiness. Rather it produces it!

Read the rest of this post for insight into a great discussion on sanctification.