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Do not fill this in! === Entire sanctification === The Holiness movement believes that the "[[second work of grace]]" (or "second blessing") refers to a personal experience subsequent to [[Salvation (Christianity)|regeneration]], in which the believer is cleansed from original sin.<ref name="Beliefs">{{Cite web|url=https://godsmissionarychurch.org/beliefs-gods-missionary-church/|title=Beliefs|website=God's Missionary Church, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref> It was actually this doctrine, the attainment of complete freedom from sin that the movement was built upon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shattuck |first=Gardener |title=Encyclopedia of American Religious History Volume 1 |publisher=FactsonFileINC |year=1996 |isbn=0-8160-2406-5 |location=Boston |pages=295}}</ref> "In this line of thinking, a person is first saved, at which point he is justified and born again. Following this, he experiences a period of growth...This ultimately culminates in a second work of grace whereby the Holy Spirit cleanses his heart of original sin, eradicating all inbred sin. The Holy Spirit then imparts His indwelling presence, empowering the believer...This is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It happens instantaneously as the believer presents himself or herself as a living sacrifice to God with an attitude of full consecration," and faith.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Rhodes, Ron|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/884817087|title=The complete guide to Christian denominations|date=March 2015|isbn=978-0-7369-5291-0|oclc=884817087}}</ref> The First General Holiness Assembly's 1885 Declaration of Principles, which explained:<blockquote>"Entire Sanctification... is that great work wrought subsequent to regeneration, by the Holy Ghost, upon the sole condition of faith...such faith being preceded by an act of solemn and complete consecration. This work has these distinct elements: # The entire extinction of the carnal mind, the total eradication of the birth principle of sin # The communication of perfect love to the soul... # The abiding indwelling of the Holy Ghost."<ref>Maddox, Randy (1998). [https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/ec2606ed-7a7c-4cee-a4ba-269b1a473e5c "Reconnecting the Means to the End: A Wesleyan Prescription for the Holiness Movement"]. ''Wesleyan Theological Journal''.'''33''' (2): 29β66.</ref> </blockquote>The [[Church of the Nazarene]], a large Wesleyan-Holiness denomination in the Methodist tradition, explains that: {{blockquote|"We believe that entire sanctification is that act of God, subsequent to regeneration, by which believers are made free from original sin, or depravity, and brought into a state of entire devotement to God, and the holy obedience of love made perfect. It is wrought by the baptism with or infilling of the Holy Spirit, and comprehends in one experience the cleansing of the heart from sin and the abiding, indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, empowering the believer for life and service. Entire sanctification is provided by the blood of Jesus, is wrought instantaneously by grace through faith, preceded by entire consecration; and to this work and state of grace the Holy Spirit bears witness."|source=Dean G. Blevins et al., eds., Church of the Nazarene: Manual, 2013β2017 (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 2013), 32β33.}} According to Stephen S. White, a noted Holiness scholar from the mid-1900s, there are "five cardinal elements" in the doctrine of entire sanctification: # "Entire Sanctification is a Second work of Grace # Entire Sanctification is received Instantaneously # Entire Sanctification -- Frees from Sin # Entire Sanctification -- Is Attainable in This Life # Entire Sanctification -- and the Baptism with the Holy Spirit are Simultaneous"<ref>{{Cite book|last=White|first=Stephen S.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/814409314|title=Five cardinal elements in the doctrine of entire sanctification|date=1954|publisher=Beacon Hill Press|oclc=814409314}}</ref> This experience of [[entire sanctification]] or [[Christian perfection#Quaker teaching|Perfection]] is generally identified with the filling of or the baptism of the Holy Ghost.<ref name="Beliefs"/> As such, entire sanctification is also known in the Holiness Methodist tradition as [[Baptism with the Holy Spirit]] (though in Pentecostalism, this term carries a different meaning).<ref name="UMC2012"/><ref name="PHC2000">{{cite web|url=http://www.pilgrimholinesschurch.org/doctrine.htm|title=Doctrine|date=15 December 2000|publisher=[[Pilgrim Holiness Church|Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York]]|language=en|access-date=31 May 2018|archive-date=2 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502115615/http://www.pilgrimholinesschurch.org/doctrine.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[John Swanel Inskip]], a minister in the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], explained, "There is, however, one doctrine, in a great measure peculiar to Methodism. It is that, in which we teach the possibility of man attaining a state of grace in the present life, in which he will be made free from sin."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Inskip|first=John S.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/30371096 |title=Methodism explained and defended. |date=1860 |publisher=H.S. & J. Applegate |oclc=30371096}}</ref> Reflecting this inward holiness, Holiness Methodists, who make up the bulk of the Holiness Movement, have emphasized the Wesleyan-Arminian doctrine [[outward holiness]], which includes practices such as the wearing of modest clothing and not using [[profanity]] in speech; Holiness Quakers have likewise emphasized the Friends teaching on [[testimony of simplicity]], while the Holiness Anabaptists (such as [[Brethren in Christ Church|Holiness River Brethren]] and [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Holiness Mennonites]]) have upheld their belief in [[nonconformity to the world]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seedbed.com/getting-it-right-christian-perfection-and-wesleys-purposeful-list|title=Getting It Right: Christian Perfection and Wesley's Purposeful List|last=Headley|first=Anthony J.|date=4 October 2013|publisher=Seedbed|language=en|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> Baptists who have embraced the second work of grace have founded their own denominations, such as the [[Holiness Baptist Association]] and [[Ohio Valley Association of the Christian Baptist Churches of God]]. The [[Original Church of God or Sanctified Church|Original Church of God]] and the [[Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.]] were founded by Baptist ministers, including Charles W. Gray and [[Charles Price Jones]], who embraced the doctrine of entire sanctification. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page