{"id":1361,"date":"2009-06-21T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/06\/21\/a-good-post-on-holiness\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:13:19","slug":"a-good-post-on-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/06\/21\/a-good-post-on-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"a good post on holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to call your attention to a blog by Marty Colborn, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/mindifisaysomething.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/what-about-holiness.html\" target=\"_blank\">What About Holiness?<\/a>\u2019 Marty writes very thoughtful pieces on the Christian life, but this one is particularly timely. I think he gets it exactly right. You don\u2019t produce holiness by works, but you holiness will produce works in keeping with itself.<\/p>\n<p>Many who accuse fundamentalists of an over-emphasis on externals assume that fundamentalists believe that conformity to outward standards will produce holiness. I haven\u2019t found that to be the case in my experience in numerous fundamentalist churches. What I have heard taught is essentially what Marty highlights in his post.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In thinking about my own life, I can say that I need to be more holy, and that there are many things that distract me from that pursuit of holiness. I am sure that some of these things show up externally, in behaviours, and not simply in my innermost being where no one else can see.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I encourage you to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/don_sig25.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to call your attention to a blog by Marty Colborn, \u2018What About Holiness?\u2019 Marty writes very thoughtful pieces on the Christian life, but this one is particularly timely. I think he gets it exactly right. You don\u2019t produce holiness by works, but you holiness will produce works in keeping with itself. Many who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[92,95],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-lX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}