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Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

"The church must be distinct from the world to reach the world." - From Chapter 1 "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9, ESV). Holy and dedicated to declaring the excellencies of God-this is the church, or is it? Can...

be holy is not a call to a bootstrap moralistic improvement. Rather, it is a call to live out the practical implications of our holiness in Christ by pursuing holiness as a lifestyle. Our renewal and change flow from the sanctification that God has already accomplished in our lives. As “holy and beloved” by God, we are to abandon the values and attitudes and practices that belong to the old self and be clothed with the new self (cf. Colossians 3:9-10, 12). We are to live with a confidence in what
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