It is time for the church of Jesus Christ to focus less on Salvation issues and more on our own Sanctification. THE REFORMATION deeply impacted Sanctification issues for every Christian. If you want to BE MORE LIKE JESUS AND NOT JUST TRY TO ACT MORE LIKE JESUS, JOIN THIS MOVEMENT. We guarantee, you will!
Salvation
Sanctification
Glorification
Study of God or religious belief
While theology is described or defined as the “study of God or religious belief”, the most important goal is not only to study God and belief but to come to truth about God and belief. Due to the problems that existed in Christianity at the time of The Reformation, changes were clearly needed regarding the beliefs of the day fostered by corrupt persons in leadership positions within the church.
At the time that Martin Luther among important others, stood up to the untruths and corruption within Church leadership, it took great courage and perseverance to promote truth. With the iron clad grip and control over the faithful, promoting truth could be dangerous to your church membership and even to your very life.
Gratefully, those in opposition to the corrupt leadership did overcome all of the obstacles so that major changes were made to the belief structures of Christianity that brought the faithful back to the core teachings of the Bible. Jesus himself promised that “His burden was light” compared to the heavy, difficult and hypocritical religious burdens put upon the Jewish followers by the leaders of their day.
It seems no matter what, when, where, or how, there are people at every time period throughout history who see religion as an open door through which they will happily go through in order to gain great control over masses of people for their own glory and enrichment.
All of the changes that came about after those heroes stood up to the falsity within the church were called “The Reformation” or changing Christianity for the better according to a definition by Websters Dictionary for “reformed”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reformed
The Reformation
It seems no matter what, when, where, or how, there are people at every time period throughout history who see religion as an open door through which they will happily go through in order to gain great control over masses of people for their own glory and enrichment.
All of the changes that came about after those heroes stood up to the falsity within the church were called “The Reformation” or changing Christianity for the better according to a definition by Websters Dictionary for “reformed”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reformed
I would argue that main cause of the push towards hyper-focus on Salvation over Sanctification comes from the often encountered but rarely admitted judgment of most Christians that while Jesus defeated sin for us, we have not found the same success. Clearly as Jesus was the only human to have lived a perfect or sinless life, we are not looking at the goal of perfection for believers and leadership. There is much empirical data(to the degree we have empirical data) obtained by polling of the church on these issues that demonstrates two major problems.
Both of these facts create huge problems for the Church and it doesn’t look like it is getting better but rather, getting worse. One only needs to know about the Holiness of God to know that this problem will not go on forever. Either, there will be a great awakening and revival or judgment will fall upon the land including the Church.
New Paradigm
Facing this problem of defeat with the opposite promise for us in scripture shows we need new paradigm.
Our current paradigm is to stop sinning like we tell ourselves to exercise more, or to stop eating sweets.
The revelation regarding a new paradigm addresses several areas about life in general and Christian life in specific:
1. ORIGINAL SIN
2. THE BROKEN COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN SOUL/HEART/MIND
3. THE ROOT CAUSE OF SIN
4. BIBLICAL SPIRITUAL LAWS
5. A PROCESS TO COMBINE ALL OF THESE PARADIGM SHIFTS FOR VICTORY AS PROMISED BY JESUS.