Drifting away from Holiness.

People do not drift toward Holiness.

Apart from grace-driven effort,

people do not gravitate toward

• godliness
• prayer
• obedience to Scripture
• faith
• and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;

• we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom;
• we drift toward superstition and call it faith.
• We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;
• we slough toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism;
• we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated

A quote taken (words same, format different) from D. A. Carson (1946.12.21-) Carson is a well-known evangelical biblical scholar, a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he was hired as a young graduate to teach it for a year and ended up teaching it for a lifetime. He is also president and co-founder of the Gospel Coalition. He has written or edited more than sixty books and was president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2022. He received his Master of Divinity from Heritage College & Seminary in 1970, and his Doctorate of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge in 1975