{"id":39967,"date":"2021-10-11T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=39967"},"modified":"2021-10-11T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T08:00:51","slug":"bcc-classic-how-does-sanctification-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=39967","title":{"rendered":"BCC Classic: How Does Sanctification Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: The Biblical Counseling Coalition exists to build unity in the biblical counseling movement. We desire to build bridges and connections between biblical counseling leaders and organizations worldwide. With your help, we will build new bridges and strengthen existing ones, which is the focus of our Building Bridges Campaign. From now through the end of the year, we will look back at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2021\/10\/11\/bcc-classic-how-does-sanctification-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the risen Jesus gave final instructions to His disciples, He commissioned them to make more disciples (Matt. 28:18-20). In other words, they were to serve the processes of\u00a0sanctification: the birth\u00a0and growth\u00a0of new people with a new way of life. Perhaps describing His ministry goal as sanctification sounds surprising. We often hear Jesus\u2019 words as a call for personal evangelism, church planting, and world missions, with conversion as the desired result. But conversion is the birth that leads to a lifetime of growing up into Jesus\u2019 image. Sanctification is discipleship into His way of life. This post drills down into key aspects of\u00a0how\u00a0growth in grace actually works, and thus how ministry works to promote growth. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":39969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[17,692,328,4461,1453,708,96,230],"class_list":["post-39967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-christian-living","tag-christianity","tag-discipleship","tag-growth","tag-holy-spirit","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-sanctification","tag-theology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39970,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967\/revisions\/39970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}