The John Wesley Foundation of St. Louis sponsors the ST. LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION annually on the last Thursday and Friday of February. Join us FEBRUARY 24/25, 2022
...To proclaim full salvation through Jesus Christ for whosoever will.
...To advance and to promote the Scriptural doctrine of holiness of heart and life. “Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” Hebrews 12:14
...To lead those who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness into the experience of heart purity until the Holy Spirit witnesses with their spirit that they are cleansed from all unrighteous. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23
...To meet together with those of like precious faith for edification, exhortation, and encouragement.
We are convinced that the message of Scriptural Holiness
is the great need of our
generation. Only the empowered, emboldened, and encouraged people of God can put the enemy on the run.
"Give me ONE HUNDRED men who LOVE ONLY GOD with ALL THEIR HEART and HATE ONLY SIN with all their heart, and we will SHAKE THE GATES OF HELL and bring in the KINGDOM OF GOD in one generation."
John Wesley, Father of Methodism
It is our conviction that the decline of morality in our culture and within the professing Christian community is rooted in the failure of the Church to embrace and articulate and demonstrate the message of Scriptural holiness.
The contemporary Church has lost its sanctifying influence in society, as it has:
… lost her conviction that the Scriptures are inspired and inerrant.
… accepted what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called, “cheap grace,” a grace that justifies sin without justifying the sinner.” … refused to believe in the possibility of God’s grace to actually save sinners from all sin and to cleanse the heart of inherited depravity—our natural tendency to rebel against God. The Scriptures teach, and we affirm: 1. Sanctification is the work of God that purifies the believer from acquired and inherited depravity. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. I Thessalonians 5:23,24 2. At the time of conversion the penitent believer is justified, which is the imputation of righteousness in place of the believer’s guilt; and initially sanctified, which is the impartation of God’s righteousness worked in the believer’s heart and life. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
…And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. I Corinthians 6:9-11 Sanctification is initialized at the time of justification, for at that time God delivers the penitent believer from the power of sin, enabling righteous living and spiritual growth that brings the believer to the point of entire sanctification. “God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” 2 Thessalonians 2:13.
Entire sanctification is the instantaneous cleansing of the believer’s heart of inherited depravity, so that the heart of the believer is fully renewed in the image of God, purified of inherited depravity, and perfected in love, accelerating growth in Christlikeness. “Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment.” I John 4:17.
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