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The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Be holy as I am holy,” says the Lord. It’s the most extravagant—and audacious—invitation ever sent: Or in the words of Jesus: “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” But can that really happen? Is holiness an achievable goal for sinful human beings? That’s the ultimate focus of this thoughtful, thorough, and engaging study of what it means to be holy. Drawing on the Bible and Christian...

utterly unable to comply. But amid these laws, he offered this hope: “One day you will be perfect. One day, because of grace, you will be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Whether this future tense was intended, we cannot be sure, but it certainly is true—eschatologically, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be like him, holy as he is holy, for we shall see him as he is (1 John 3:2). This promise fuels greater resolve on our part, and so John immediately continued, “Everyone who has this hope
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