Jennifer Bales

At the heart of every holiness movement throughout the history of the church is a suspicion that if you emphasize doctrine, if you emphasize and tell people that Jesus has done everything, that Christ is sufficient, and that there’s nothing left to do in order to be reconciled to God, then you’re going to produce apathetic and lawless people. As we’ve said so many times, that would be true if salvation was a natural process that man achieved—but it isn’t. It’s a supernatural work of God from beginning to end, and the Holy Spirit, taking up residence within us and doing the sanctifying work that He does, makes it certain that those who have trusted Christ will be conformed into his image."