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Some of the Ways in Which Christians Disagree about Sanctification (continued)

IV. Putting it Together: Theological Common Ground and Key Implications

What Reformed and Holiness Christians agree on:

A. Sanctification is becoming like Christ and is the aim of the Christian life. [Scripture teaches us that this [holiness] is the goal of our calling- John Calvin, “Institutes of the Christian Religion].

B. Sanctification begins at the moment of salvation and faith is its sole condition (Doctrinal Minutes of the Methodist Conferences 1744-47).

C. Sanctification is both imputed and imparted and comes only by the grace of God.

D. Sanctification involves both a unique point of decision 1 and an on-going process of living out that decision.

1 For Reformed theology this point is conversion, for Holiness theologies it is conversion and a second experience of grace with the Holy Spirit.