Everywhere is Holy Ground

Because of Jesus, the presence that once threatened our lives is now opened up to us in a radical and scandalous way. The cross cleanses us of our sins, and now the Most Holy Place, the place where we can go to meet with God and enjoy life with him, is literally everywhere.

In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches us to call our hallowed God, "Father." His dangerous presence is transformed into a presence of intimacy and comfort; he's our dad. Through the cross, life in God's world becomes life in his "hallowed" presence. Every square inch of it is holy ground.

--Daniel Montgomery & Mike Cosper, Faithmapping: A Gospel Atlas for Your Spiritual Journey (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 198.

God's Unwavering Agenda: To Make Us Holy

[God] calls us to a life of constant work, constant growth, and constant confession and repentance. Making us holy is God's unwavering agenda until we are taken home to be with him. He will do whatever he needs to produce holiness in us. He wants us to be a community of joy, but he is willing to compromise our temporal happiness in order to increase our Christlikeness.

--Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp, How People Change (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2006), 6.

Biblical Spirituality Needed for Evangelistic Competence

Evangelistic competence for witnessing with the Spirit is the result of a maturing relationship with the triune God and is directly related to the outward expressions of this divine-human fellowship in a lifestyle of biblical spirituality.

--Brian A. DeVries, "The Evangelistic Trialogue: Gospel Communication with the Holy Spirit," Calvin Theological Journal 44, pg. 68.