Challenges to holiness without mention...

Challenges to holiness without mention of grace force a human-centered religion. After all, people cannot do what they are told to do apart from Christ’s grace. That’s John 15:5, right? “Apart from me you can do nothing.” Requirements of holiness by themselves actually wound people because without provision of divine aid, they either will despair of hope or they will begin to claim their own righteousness is what makes them acceptable to God.