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The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness is unavailable, but you can change that!

The hole in our holiness is that we don't care much about holiness. Or, at the very least, we don't understand it. And we all have our reasons too: Maybe the pursuit of holiness seems legalistic. Maybe it feels like one more thing to worry about in your already overwhelming life. Maybe the emphasis on effort in the Christian life appears unspiritual. Or maybe you've been trying really hard to be...

the kingdom of God.” We find this same emphasis in Galatians 5:19–21. It’s the consistent and frequent teaching of the Bible that those whose lives are marked by habitual ungodliness will not go to heaven. To find acquittal from God on the last day there must be evidence flowing out of us that grace has flowed into us. • In particular, 1 John outlines several criteria for determining whether we truly belong to God.3 Not only will those born of God confess the Son (1 John 2:23; 4:15) and believe