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	Christian perfection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian Perfection is a controversial Christian doctrine which maintains that after conversion but before death a Christian's soul may be cleansed from the stain of original sin.
		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).
		Wesley was clear that Christian perfection did not imply perfection of bodily health or an infallibility of judgment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_perfection (584 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian and Religious Perfection
		Perfect union with God cannot be attained in this life, so man is imperfect in that he lacks the happiness for which he is destined and suffers many evils both of body and soul.
		The perfection of the soul increases in proportion with the possession of charity.
		Negatively: the obstacles in the way of perfection, which are (1 John 1:16) concupiscence of the eyes, concupiscence of the flesh, and pride of life, are removed by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, respectively.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11665b.htm (993 words)

	Christian Perfection - President Asa Mahan's 1799-1889
		In the Christian, perfection in holiness implies the consecration of his whole being to Christ—the subjection of all his powers and susceptibilities to the control of one principle,—"faith on the son of God." This is what the moral law demands of him in his circumstances.
		I argue, that perfection in holiness is attainable in this life, and that the sacred writers intended to teach the doctrine, from the fact, that inspired men made the attainment of this particular state the subject of definite, fervent, and constant prayer.
		All acknowledge it to be the duty of the Christian to aim at perfection in holiness.
	www.geocities.com /rickfriedrich/ChristianPerfection.html (15195 words)

	Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives
		Christian perfection, or entire sanctification, may be the most controversial of Wesley’s teachings.
		Christian perfection, he said, 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 [Epworth, 1952] 109).
		Second, Wesley believed Christian perfection to be promised to everyone who believed—it is not only for a relatively small number of persons who belong to a monastic community, but for all persons in the midst of everyday life.
	catalystresources.org /issues/304knight.html (758 words)

	Christian Perfection
		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.
		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."
		Let us look again at the statement that the gifts are for the perfecting of the saints, "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." There is the pattern.
	www.nisbett.com /righteousness/lof/lof27.htm (5420 words)

	Chapter 19. CHRISTIAN PERFECTION.
		Christian Perfection, as here required, is not freedom from temptation, either from our constitution or from things that are about us.
		Sinners may strongly wish to become Christians, and Christians may strongly wish or desire to be rid of all their sins, and may pray for it, even with agony.
		But Christians have taken the other ground, and think of nothing but that they are to go on in sin, and all they hope for is to be forgiven, and when they die made holy in heaven.
	www.ovrlnd.com /LecturesToChristians/lecturespc19.html (6745 words)

	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.
		The teleioi are to be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.
		William Burt Pope, A Compendium of Christian Theology Being Analytical {32} Outlines of a Course of Theological Study, Biblical Dogmatic, Historical, vol.
	www.directionjournal.org /article?503 (3009 words)

	A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
		In this is perfection, and glory, and happiness: The royal law of heaven and earth is this, `Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.' The one perfect good shall be your one ultimate end.
		For our perfection is not like that of a tree, which flourishes by the sap derived from its own root, but, as was said before, like that of a branch which, united to the vine, bears fruit; but, severed from it, is dried up and withered.
		For instance: Even one that is perfected in love may mistake with regard to another person, and may think him, in a particular case, to be more or less faulty than he really is. And hence he may speak to him with more or less severity than the truth requires.
	www.ccel.org /w/wesley/perfection/perfection.html (21417 words)

	Christian Perfection
		Here he qualified perfection further as he insisted that no one, regardless of the degree of sanctification, is ever beyond needing the intercession of the merit of Christ.
		However profoundly perfection may be expounded with respect to sin in Wesley's sense of "voluntary", too much remains unsaid for that corruption which is none the less culpable for its being involuntary.
		In his discussion of Christian perfection, Wesley amplifies the truth that the all-consuming fixation of the Christian's life is God.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Wesley/newpage128.htm (6862 words)

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		A Christian life must radiate with all the names describing the meaning of Christ: those we imitate and those we worship if the man of God is to be perfect and does not mutilate the good with anything evil as the Apostle says (2Tim 3.17).
		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.
		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.
	www.bhsu.edu /artssciences/asfaculty/dsalomon/nyssa/perf.html (11260 words)

	Christian Perfection
		The very sound of it is an abomination to them; and whosoever preaches perfection, (as the phrase is,) that is, asserts that it is attainable in this life, runs great hazard of being accounted by them worse than a heathen man or a publican.
		And this is the more needful to be done, because, in the verse already repeated, the Apostle speaks of himself as not perfect: "Not," saith he, "as though I were already perfect." And yet immediately after, in the fifteenth verse, he speaks of himself, yea, and many others, as perfect.
		Christian perfection, therefore, does not imply (as some men seem to have imagined) an exemption either from ignorance or mistake, or infirmities, or temptations.
	users.tpg.com.au /sarina21/trumpet/christianperfection.html (1830 words)

	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.
		Let us therefore, as many as are perfect (teleios), have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; Vs. 16 - however, let us keep living by that same {standard} to which we have attained.
		In these cases we observe that the term “nobody is perfect” carries with it a lack of repentance.
	www.templebuilders.com /anointing/8.htm (1956 words)

	John Wesley, Sermon 40: Christian Perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And whosoever preaches perfection (as the phrase is,) that is, asserts that it is attainable in this life, runs great hazard of being accounted by them worse than a heathen man or a publican.
		But even babes in Christ are in such a sense perfect, or born of God, (an expression taken also in divers senses,) as, First, not to commit sin.
		And even hence it follows, that neither have real Christians: for "every one that is perfect is as his Master." (Luke 6:40) Therefore, if He was free from evil or sinful thoughts, so are they likewise.
	gbgm-umc.org /umhistory/wesley/sermons/serm-040.stm (6822 words)

	Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest": December 2nd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection.
		Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship to God which shows itself amid the irrelevancies of human life.
		God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His show-room; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He likes.
	www.myutmost.org /12/1202.html (340 words)

	Sermon 40 - Christian Perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		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.
		Ye are "perfect men, being grown up to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." [Eph.
	wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/sermons/040.htm (7171 words)

	Christian Perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The totality of the passages will prove the case that Christian perfection is for the Church, and is absolutely attainable, and in fact necessary.
		There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
		But there are far too many Christians who will sit there and watch a movie that, in it’s original form, was full of immorality, and even taking the Lord’s name in vain, and somehow think that this is what God wants out of them.
	members.aol.com /truth41037/perbook.htm (6173 words)

	Christian Perfection
		Because many cannot tolerate the word ‘perfect.’ Those who teach it are considered to be the worst of heretics.
		Some who deny the idea of perfection use this as an excuse for their own ungodliness, forgetting that Paul adds, “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded” (Philippians 3:15.)
		In this sermon we will endeavour to find out in what sense a believer is not perfect, and in what sense he is perfect.
	www.lwbc.co.uk /Wesley/christian_perfection.htm (1103 words)

	John Wesley: A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN PERFECTION.Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chapter 2 In What Sense are Christians Perfect?
		Chapter 9 Further Thoughts on Christian Perfection- Questions 1-21
		Chapter 10 Further Thoughts on Christian Perfection- Questions 22-38
	www.worldinvisible.com /library/wesley/8317/8317c.htm (53 words)

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