Restoration Churches Needed

Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: Maintaining a balance between holiness and grace is necessary for effective and evangelistically successful churches in the 21st century. However, churches that reflect mercy and holiness will face criticism from both extreme holiness legalists and liberal believers who reject the call to holiness in Scripture. Churches that attract unconverted people will require complex and sophisticated treatment to help them through the sanctification process. Restoration churches are needed to help those who come to the Church with various ties and needs. Restorations take time and require a pastoral and merciful approach. Churches that exemplify the pastoral process and restoration of souls are needed. The treatment of Christ in the Gospels reflects this balance between holiness and grace.

We continue our meditation on the call for a balance between holiness and grace in the 21st century. We have to live in the tension between being vertical holiness churches and being merciful churches. The process of sanctification is a long-term journey. Churches are needed that are willing to pay the price of reflecting the character of Jesus Christ.

Let me say something to the people who read me or listen to me or watch this program and it is that: if a Pastor or Christian leadership decides to go on this path of balance that I see reflected in the Person of Jesus Christ, they will receive many attacks from both one side as the other. On the side of people of extreme holiness and legalism they are going to be accused of being liberal and not adhering to the Word of God and of being debauched with things of the spirit because they are not continually cutting off people's heads when they are in a sin or other and are willing to allow a little space in which people come to the fullness of the character of Christ.

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