(“On Good Works”) stresses the importance of such demonstration but not its necessity. The practical result is that “justification” can be too easily conceptualized apart from the idea of the transformation of the person.3 This is by no means the necessary result, but it is all too often the actual result, to which (as we saw in the introduction to this book) many “Romans Road” websites bear witness in their focus on justification (and that in a very limited sense!). At best this leaves sanctification
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