The church is not short of books, tracts and sermons on how to live the victorious Christian life. You could go into an average religious book shop and cart off a dray load of this kind of literature. At the present time there are seminars in progress all over the land teaching people how to turn on to dynamic Christian living. Most of this flood of material on Christian living does not lead to victory over sin, but it actually breeds sin. Sin is egotism and selfcenteredness.
Religious egotism is the worst form.
It sets people to gazing at their own spiritual navel and drowns them in their own victory life piety. Four hundred fifty years ago the church was delivered from this groveling, believer-centered mentality by the mighty truth of justification by faith. We fully believe that the church is again ripe for another revolution. A lot of people may give lip allegiance to the mighty truth of justification by faith, but they do not see how it is relevant to their daily Christian experience. The church is largely bogged down with a sort of sanctificationism which has become divorced from the gospel and justification by faith.