A job not yet done, so this title will remind me . . .

Up to this point, I have been copying posts from another journal into this blog, with many added notes and changes. I am getting near the bottom of those previous journal-posts.

In doing that, this copied post stood out to me especially today:
◌ "These 'be Holy' Scriptures, with instructions on how to be holy, are all through the Bible: why did I miss those instructions -- the actual 'how tos' -- for so long? And now that I am seeing them clearly, I am responsible for them. That is an awesome and sobering thought."

While I was studying this subject, I had decided to look at sanctification in the teaching books we still have from the church we -- my husband and me -- used to attend. I have not really looked into that fully yet, but this is what I remember being taught, not in their words but in mine:
◌ That sanctification is a crisis experience on the fast track toward a greater "experience," all three of which are necessary for "seeing the
L-rd."
◌ That if we were sanctified (by that crisis experience), we were perfect, we were holy. The root of sin was absolutely, completely eradicated -- no longer there! We would not sin again -- ever. And if, for some reason, we did anything they considered to be sin, we would lose our salvation and sanctification, necessitating "starting over."
◌ Then after a young man, who had been reared in a different religion, began to preach in the Minneapolis church I attended, it was the first time I had ever heard of "progressive sanctification."
◌ Later, I heard the idea of "progressive sanctification" preached in that church organization by others. It was not that any of their teachers neglected the idea of the crisis experience, but that "progressive sanctification" was preached as an addition to crisis-sanctification, after the experience. The idea of progressive sanctification was a huge relief to me.

So, it is time for me to read what they wrote in their literature about sanctification, so that I will understand what they really intended. In my 50+ years in that church, I had many teachers in many cities, as did my husband. I did learn that their teachers, while the church frowned on any differences in their teachers, did, indeed, teach some differing ideas.