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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian and Religious Perfection |
 | | This is the perfect fulfilment of the law (Matthew 22:37), as God is the primary object of charity. | | | He who possesses the perfection which excludes mortal sin obtains salvation, is united to God, and is said to be just, holy, and perfect. | | | IRTUE OF Christian perfection, or the perfection of charity as taught by our Saviour, applies to all men, both secular and religious, yet there is also religious perfection. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11665b.htm
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| | Christian Perfection - President Asa Mahan's 1799-1889 |
| | Perfection in holiness is promised to the Christian in the new covenant under which he is now placed. | | | I infer that a state of perfect holiness is attainable in this life, from the commands of Scripture, addressed to Christians under the new covenant. | | | All acknowledge it to be the duty of the Christian to aim at perfection in holiness. |
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http://www.geocities.com/rickfriedrich/ChristianPerfection.html
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| | Christian Perfection |
| | It is given "for the perfecting of the saints" and it is given "till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." | | | Perfection is that to which we are to attain, nothing but that. | | | Then when it is God's own perfection which you and I must have and which alone we will accept of ourselves and we hold ourselves to that standard always, you can see at once that that will be for you and me only to hold ourselves constantly in the presence of the judgement of God. |
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http://www.nisbett.com/righteousness/lof/lof27.htm
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| | Chapter 19. CHRISTIAN PERFECTION. |
| | Christians do not believe that it is the will of God, or that God is willing they should be perfectly sanctified in this world. | | | The command in the text, "Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," is given under the gospel. | | | There is a pertinacious unwillingness in sinners to become Christians, and in Christians to become perfect, or to come up to the full perfection required both by the law and gospel. |
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http://www.ovrlnd.com/LecturesToChristians/lecturespc19.html
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| | Direction: Christian Perfection |
| | It was this gnostic view of perfection which caused many of the church fathers to withdraw from their commitment to Christian perfection. | | | Perfection is not for an exclusive {29} group within the Church. | | | Frederic Platt, “Perfection (Christian)”, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. |
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| | For a modern expression of Christian perfection, refer to the Constitution on the Church of the Second Vatican Council: "...all the faithful of Christ...are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity. | | | Thus the Christian with an irrational beast's head would not be properly named, that is, if he is not attached in faith to the head of the universe which is the Word. | | | As bishop of Nyssa, Gregory combatted the Eunomian heresy by not only emphasizing the divine nature of Christ and the Holy Spirit, but by definitely establishing the incomprehensibility of God; he stressed that our knowledge of God is the result of his presence in us by grace, the domain of the mystical life. |
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http://www.bhsu.edu/artssciences/asfaculty/dsalomon/nyssa/perf.html
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| | Christian Perfection: Prophetic Teaching |
| | Not that I have already obtained {it} or have already become perfect (teleios), but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. | | | A life that we see as “perfect and complete” is reflected in Paul’s manner of living. | | | We may have many preconceived ideas of what “being spiritual”, “being perfect” is, but God will define it before our very eyes by examining the Heart of God in the Apostle Paul and others who ran this race - in scripture. |
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http://www.templebuilders.com/anointing/8.htm
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| | Sermon 40 - Christian Perfection |
| | But it should be premised, that there are several stages in Christian life, as in natural; some of the children of God being but new-born babes; others having attained to more maturity. | | | In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil." (1 John 3:7-10.) Here the point, which till then might possibly have admitted of some doubt in weak minds, is purposely settled by the last of the inspired writers, and decided in the clearest manner. | | | They know, it may be, in common with other men, many things relating to the present world; and they know, with regard to the world to come, the general truths which God hath revealed. |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/sermons/040.htm
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| | Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest": December 2nd. |
| | I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, not admiration for myself. | | | The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be that God is producing specimens of holiness to put in His museum. | | | When you obey the call of Jesus Christ, the first thing that strikes you is the irrelevancy of the things you have to do, and the next thing that strikes you is the fact that other people seem to be living perfectly consistent lives. |
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http://www.myutmost.org/12/1202.html
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| | Christian Perfection |
| | The mystics were then too close to regarding faith, or at least the capacity for faith or the desire for faith, as a natural human possibility. | | | Wesley was dismayed, enraged, frantic, even contemptuous and derisory at the spectacle of Christians who preferred pennies to love-wrought, love-directed perfection-in-love. | | | It stands at the centre of and is the organizing principle for his theology; every aspect of the Christian economy converges upon it and radiates from it. |
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http://www.victorshepherd.on.ca/Wesley/newpage128.htm
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| | A Plain Account of Christian Perfection |
| | Even perfect holiness is acceptable to God only through Jesus Christ. | | | But after a time, a cry arose, and, what a little surprised me, among religions men, who affirmed, not that I stated perfection wrong, but that "there is no perfection on earth;" nay, and fell vehemently on my brother and me for affirming the contrary. | | | "The privileges of Christians are in nowise to be measured by what the Old Testament records concerning those who were under the Jewish dispensation; seeing the fulness of time is now come, the Holy Ghost is now given, the great salvation of God is now brought to men by the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/perfection/perfection.html
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| | Christian Perfection |
| | The religion of Christianity is no different than other religions of the world. | | | The religion of Christianity is about giving ten-percent of your money, and part of your time, to the Lord. | | | The totality of the passages will prove the case that Christian perfection is for the Church, and is absolutely attainable, and in fact necessary. |
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http://members.aol.com/truth41037/perbook.htm
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| | Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives |
| | Another may be that we simply lack an expectant faith in the transforming power of God. | | | Certainly, like monastics, believers undertake spiritual disciplines and belong to distinctive communities, but the disciplines are lived out in one’s daily life and the community involves weekly meetings in one’s neighborhood. | | | Nor does it mean we no longer violate the will of God, for involuntary transgressions remain. |
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http://catalystresources.org/issues/304knight.html
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| | Christian Perfection |
| | A plain account of Christian perfection: as believed and taught by the Rev. Mr. |
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http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/special/wesleyana/Books/subject/chperfection.htm
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| | Christian perfection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is chiefly associated with the followers of John Wesley who are part of the Methodist movement. | | | It also does not mean we no longer violate the will of God, for involuntary transgressions remain. | | | Christian perfection, according to Wesley, is “purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God” and “the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.” It is “loving God with all our heart, and our neighbor as ourselves” (A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, 109). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_perfection
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| | Christian Perfection |
| | The teaching of Christian Perfection causes more offence among believers than any other doctrine. | | | Except for our Lord Jesus Christ, because we are in the flesh, we are prone to lapses and find it easier to sin than obey God. | | | “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus” |
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http://www.lwbc.co.uk/Wesley/christian_perfection.htm
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| | John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection |
| | John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection | | | Permission to use the Cross and Flame must be obtained from the General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church - Legal Department, 1200 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201. |
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