“In greater or lesser degrees, a warm appreciation of the excellencies of God will affect all believers. He shows that Christians gradually become holy and that they do so for no other motivation, or no other ultimate motivation, than for the very sake of holiness. Here he looks to questions of morality, questions of Christian practice.
So Wilberforce wants to draw a contrast between genuine Christianity and the fraudulent, inculturated Christianity so prevalent in his day and, depending where you live, so prevalent in our day.įirst, The Discipline of Christianity as Stated in Scripture. Wilberforce begins the chapter this way: “People commonly believe that if a man admits to the truth of Christianity in general terms, we have no reason to be dissatisfied with him.” The purpose of this book, of course, is to discern the marks of a genuine commitment to Christianity–the marks of a genuine faith.
Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patronīecause this was a very long chapter, I will simply summarize it and provide a few favorite quotes for each of the chapter’s headings.
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