Will there Be A Holiness Movement in 50 years?

Young Christians within the Holiness movement have a hard time understanding this second work. We are brought up to believe that Sanctification is instantaneous. I know that here are those that God instantaneously sanctifies, but I also believe that the majority of people may be moving towards this complete surrender and Holy Spirit infilling for quite some time. Wesley Duewel states in his book, God’s Great Salvation,

A born again Christian may feel the Holy Spirit’s conviction of need for inner cleansing and may come repeatedly and partially respond on various occasions before the time comes when his consecration and surrender becomes total, or before he actually by faith claims full cleansing through the infilling of the Holy Spirit.” (p. 190)

Duewel goes on to say that, “this is particularly true when the person has not had clear teaching on the experience of entire sanctification through the infilling of the Holy Spirit.” (p. 190) Without good teaching on the topic of sanctification young men and women will continue to beat themselves up because they can not attain the level of the saints that they grew up emulating. If someone thinks that they are not worthy of something that God has clearly promised in his word, what is next? I imagine that this might cause our young men and women to flee the movement and possibly the faith.