In Holiness The Heart of the Christian Experience by Chapman (Nazarene), he presents holiness as the heart of the Christian experience. He examines different points of holiness and how to get there.
Holiness, The Heart of the Christian Experience
By James Blaine Chapman
Summary
Holiness The Heart of the Christian Experience presents holiness as the heart of the Christian experience points and how to get there.
Evaluation by David Cox
I would understand that the Nazarenes are a branch off of the Holiness movement, basically tracing their basic doctrines and understandings back to John Wesley and the second work of Grace (being filled with the Holy Spirit). I would not agree with them on that main point that there is a “method” which when followed would result in holiness. True holiness is about knowing Jesus very well, and by walking with God day by day, one receives “the shining face” like Moses when he was in God’s presence. This is true holiness, seeing God reflected in me because I love Him.
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Having said that, and this is their fault, thinking that holiness can be prescribed somehow by activities, let me also say that outside of the holiness-deeper life movement, NOBODY seems even remotely “worried” about being holy. Most groups gloss over holiness like it is automatic, they are holy even though they are full of sins, or it is a non-issue.
Chapman’s book is about holiness, and outside of these people like Finney, Murray, E.M. Bounds, etc. you will be hard put to find works that concentrate on holiness, and exhort and strive with one to stress holiness in their life.
I would recommend this book.
Chapter Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 How I Became Interested in Bible Holiness
Chapter 2 Holiness in the Teachings of the Bible
Chapter 3 The Prerequisites of Holiness
Chapter 4 Holiness Defined
Chapter 5 Holiness Differentiated
Chapter 6 Holiness Obtained
Chapter 7 The Way to Holiness
Chapter 8 Holiness as a Life Lived
Chapter 9 Holiness and Evangelism
Chapter 10 Holiness and Practical Living
Chapter 11 Holiness and the Second Coming
Chapter 12 A Holiness Catechism
Chapter 13 Correspondence on Holiness
Holiness The Heart of the Christian Experience presents holiness as the heart of the Christian experience points and how to get there.
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Divine use of Sickness
CP34 Divine use of Sickness
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important.
Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).Please support our tract ministry by donating on the tract website (see sidebar). Because of your donations we can offer these tracts online, and for free. Read the Tract CH34
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Old Carpenter Tools of his Trade is an explanation of why I, Pastor-Missionary David Cox, write my own materials like tracts, books, sermons, Sunday School material, etc. We produce the material that we use in our ministry and also for evangelism.
Read the short article: Old Carpenter Tools of his Trade.