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“Ugh,” you groan, “not an A minus!” It’s your typical weekly check-in of your online grades, and you are horrified to see that there is a small dash after your letter grade, signifying that your academic level isn’t qualified as the “best of the best” anymore. At work, a couple of dissatisfied custo
This perfectionist doctrine of Wesley has been one major influence on Pentecostal teaching and practice. But it is not the only one with respect to this doctrine. Synan goes on to point out that this same teaching of perfectionism was brought into Pentecostalism by the American evangelist Charles Fi
The next Pentecostal teaching we wish to examine is that of perfectionism. At first glance, this may not seem to be all that significant. And it must be admitted that perfectionism is certainly not stressed very much in modern Pentecostalism. It is not a foreground matter for them, and therefore we
This view of the perfectionist is spiritually very shallow and superficial. Reformed people usually have a much profounder insight into holy writ, and at the same time a more sober view of the reality of the life of the child of God in the world. They take the reality of sin over against the righteo
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 44 Vol. 52, No. 1 “We labour, that… we may be accepted of him” (II Cor. 5:9). We are not “men-pleasers” (Eph. 6:6), but those who seek to please God. 3. Perfectionism The sins and weaknesses just mentioned often lead to or are a part of perfectionism, the ne
But holiness is especially positive than the consecration of the whole man unto God. That's how God can be holy. How can the scriptures say God is holy if He doesn't have any sin? He has nothing to cleanse and wash away. Well, that's because holiness is essentially consecration to God. And God