However, in his words: “It didn’t work and that was a deeply frustrating and depressing thing.… In fact, it was driving me crazy.” Packer claims that he felt like the “poor drug addict” whom he once saw trying to walk through a brick wall, as well as like someone who kept “missing the bus.” He experienced all of this as “an immature and churned-up young man.” He later subjected the experience to a mature understanding and offered this critique of the Keswick view of sanctification: “It offers a greater
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