Some have reduced holiness to a private religious experience that occurs in the solitude of one’s own soul. The Romans’ letter may help us here. “For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification” (Romans 6:19 NASB). We are to present our whole being as an act of worship, an offering to God (Romans 12:1-2). But the offering is presented, not at a sterile altar in the church, it is presented on dirty streets by becoming “slaves to righteousness.” This means that sanctification can never be a spiritual experience removed from a life of servitude. It means that those who were once a slave to doing what was wrong are now slaves of doing what is right; they are now slaves of righteousness, “resulting in sanctification.”
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