Why not a Coutts Institute?

Posted: August 4, 2010 in Holiness

If you know the Brengle VS Coutts arguement you may appreciate this question… Q) Why is the Brengle Institute* not called the Coutts Institute? A) Because if we were going to the Coutts one we would never actually get there! We would spend our whole lives just journeying towards the institute! (I know, I am overstating Coutts a little bit here…)

Seriously though, there is a lesson here. If you were picked to go to this holiness institute, would you want to get to the institute or would you be content to journey towards it the whole time? I dont think there would be many people who would not want to finally get there. No one would be content with being invited to attend but never actually getting there. Being invited is good, but attending is even better, the invitation makes us feel good, but experienceing the institute is better. It is more fulfilling, rewarding, and a much better use of your time.

This directly applies to us today. We have all been invited to experience the sanctified life. Jesus has offered it to us, the Bible is extremely clear that God wants to make us holy. So do you want to experience it or are you content in just ‘journeying’ towards it, getting closer and closer all the time but never arriving?

Many would say ‘but we are always growing in our holiness.’ That is true, but even once you arrive at the institute, or once you are sanctified, there is still work to do. God still wants to change you, encourage you, and deepen your love. Once we experience sancitification we need to keep it. Thats something both Brengle and Coutts agree with, but you need to answer this question for yourself, “Are you content with the journey or are you willing to arrive?”

“For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.” – 1 Thess 4:7-8

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*Brengle Institute is a conference ran annually for teaching Officers holiness

Comments
  1. Robert Evans says:

    “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness…” (2 Peter 1:3). If God has called me to be holy, has given me everything I need to be holy, then I choose to be holy!

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