# Whole Life Transformation

## Metadata
- Author: [[Keith Meyer and Dallas Willard]]
- Full Title: Whole Life Transformation
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Underneath his hypocrisy was a strong belief in the God of love, but not the God who loved him enough to deliver him from sin. Sometime before his affair he expressed the dilemma his theology created in regard to God and his sins, "I know that he will forgive them-but will he deliver me from them?" he asked. "It is not a want of faith in Christ for the past that I lack-but, 0, that I might have a Christ who should assure me of rescue and purity in every period of my life to come!" ([Location 158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=158))
- Pastors were once respected and trusted more than all other professionals but now fall just behind politicians and dangerously close to lawyers in the polls. ([Location 165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=165))
- Richard Lovelace has correctly identified a gap or hole in current evangelical theology and experience. He termed it the "sanctification gap." The gap falls between God's initial work of justification and his final work of glorification. Sanctification is the process of becoming progressively more like Christ by cooperating with God to become holy. In terms of Christian spiritual formation, it is the life change or transformation that occurs after conversion and before death. In church history, sanctification is the element missing for the last one to two hundred years, at least since the last of the great American revivals. ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=166))
- we were reducing salvation to a kind of "deal" with God rather than a relationship with him and a community of believers. ([Location 206](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=206))
- For many of us, evangelistic presentations such as "The Roman Road," "The Colored Book," "Four Spiritual Laws" and "Steps to Peace with God" introduced us to a version of the gospel reduced to privatized experience, just between God and me, that results in forgiveness of sins, personal peace and a wonderful plan for our life. The call to obedience or a different way of living is left to another tract or discipleship program that in effect makes obedience optional. ([Location 225](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=225))
- The fact is that not-so-amazing grace, grace for forgiveness alone, simply tolerates sin, leaves us in our mess and in sin's power. It gives no hope for becoming amazing people, those who never even wonder about trying to sin. ([Location 321](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=321))
- Grace that leaves me at peace with God but in broken and dysfunctional relationships with others is less than amazing. ([Location 328](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003RRX6C2&location=328))