Vital: Holy People Volume 1

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Ideal Holiness

In the church, there are always two things at work: The way things should be and the way things are.

Such is the case with the biblical truth of holiness. There’s ideal holiness, but lets be real. To what extent can we expect to experience holiness of life, mind, motive, thought, and action? To answer that question, we need to “learn not on our own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). There will always be the tension between biblical ideals and our lived experience, but Jesus came to demonstrate the ideal. Jesus points us in the direction of ideal, and His very life reflected the possibility that holiness could be fully operative in the human experience.

However, there are barriers at work within us, keeping us from realizing the full potential of ideal holiness.One such obstacle is desire. Do we tend to pursue things for which we have little or no desire? Do we view things we don’t care for by investing a great deal of our time, effort, thoughts and resources on them? Of course not. To desire ideal holiness requires a spiritual hunger. In the reality, can we expect that hunger? Where do we get that hunger and thirst?

Holiness can and should be pursued individually. However, in the church, Jesus’ ideal is to have holy people. Pursuing it together helps cultivate the sparks of hunger and thirst that will both initiate and sustain our passion for being like our Lord and King.

 

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Navigating Transitions

Fraser Venter’s spiritual journey has included periods that seem like “incredible highs with God.” He has also experienced times when he felt spiritually low, but much of the journey has involved in-between spaces where he “felt like God was forming me, but I didn’t know what it meant.”

Loving the LGBTQ+ Community From Where We Stand

How can churches reach and serve people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer without compromising the truth of Scripture?
Feature Article by Jeff Finley

Rooting Kids in the Holy Spirit

The ROOTS children’s curriculum is back with a new emphasis: the fruit of the Spirit.
Feature Article by Jeff Finley

Let the Band Play: Multiplying Disciples and Churches

The sign of a true disciple is to help someone else become a disciple.
By Larry Walkemeyer

Learn, Seek, Defend, Take Up, Plead

Love is the compelling force for justice work.
By Kevin Austin

Discovering the Love Required of Us

Free Methodist author Liz Cornell’s “The Love Required of Us” helps churches and people with racial understanding and reconciliation.
By Jeff Finley

Trading Legalism for God’s Holy Love

The legalistic approach to religion hindered my understanding of God’s deep love.
By Kathy Gaulton

Introducing The Free Methodist Way

It is our hope that The Free Methodist Way will become an important tool in our work of discipleship and leadership development.
By Bishop Keith Cowart