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The Pursuit of Holiness Paperback – January 1, 1996
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"Be holy, for I am holy," commands God to His people. But holiness is something that is often missed in the Christian's daily life. According to Jerry Bridges, that's because we're not exactly sure what our part in holiness is. In The Pursuit of Holiness, he helps us see clearly just what we should rely on God to do-and what we should accept responsibility for ourselves.
Whether you're continuing your pursuit of holiness or just beginning, the principles and guidelines in The Pursuit of Holiness will challenge you to obey God's command of holiness.
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNavpress Publishing Group
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1996
- Dimensions5.51 x 0.51 x 8.27 inches
- ISBN-101612915884
- ISBN-13978-0891099406
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- ASIN : 0891099409
- Publisher : Navpress Publishing Group; 0 edition (January 1, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1612915884
- ISBN-13 : 978-0891099406
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.51 x 8.27 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,887,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #279,307 in Christian Books & Bibles
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About the author
Jerry Bridges is a longtime staff member of the Navigators and currently serves with their collegiate ministry. In addition to his international speaking ministry, he has authored ten books and three devotionals; among them The Pursuit of Holiness, which has sold well over a million copies, and the award-winning The Discipline of Grace and I Will Follow You, O God.
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Customers find the book easy to read and well-written. They find it inspiring and helpful for their walk with God. The chapters are informative and provide clear guidelines. Readers describe the book as a quick read that points them back to biblical scriptures.
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Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. They describe it as a good resource for those seeking holiness and pleasing God. Readers recommend it as a good addition to their home library and say it will be part of their lives for a long time.
"...which may be a little long for some Bible studies, but is well worth the time and effort...." Read more
"one of the best books I have ever read. My pastor preached a sermon series using this book as a starting point. Both were fantastic." Read more
"I enjoyed reading this well written book. It definitely gave me a lot of food for thought and opportunity for study and notes...." Read more
"...This is a book to be read and reread during a lifetime. Great book!" Read more
Customers find the book inspiring and helpful for living a holy life. They appreciate the author's work in awakening Christians to the fact that God has a plan for them. The book strengthens their faith and teaches obedience to God results in joy. Readers say it's biblically handled, teaching a balance between God's empowerment and our own responsibility.
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"...Jerry Bridges has done an outstanding job in awakening Christians to the fact that God has a responsiblity in sanctifying us, and we as the..." Read more
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Customers find the book informative and easy to understand. They appreciate the clear guidelines and biblical scriptures. The book is considered a quick read that points readers back to the Bible. Readers praise it as an excellent teaching resource for Christians in the church.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2011I have been a Christian for around 10 years. Many of my friends have been Christians much longer than that. In all the time I have known my Christian friends and known Jesus Christ as my savior I have not seen a more thorough explanation of what it is to put off my sinful nature as I have found in "The Pursuit of Holiness" by Jerry Bridges. Holiness seems to have become almost a forbidden word these days. We can talk about grace, love and forgiveness, but when we talk about sin or holiness we seem to be treading on thin ice in many Christian circles. I have to ask myself why? I was hoping to find out about this in this book.
Jerry Bridges explores holiness from a beginner's perspective and builds upon that premise. He explores the holiness of God, the holiness of Jesus and exclaims that holiness is for all of us. It is not just for the super Christian or the pastor and leaders of the church, but for all Christians. To live a holy life is to "live in conformity to the moral precepts of the Bible in contrast to the sinful ways of the world." This is characterized by a life of putting off the old sinful life and putting on the new Christ-like life. Throughout this book the author stresses that the process of living a holy life is a cooperative effort between us and the Holy Spirit. We have a responsibility to obey what God tells us and the Holy Spirit enables us to do just that when things seem impossible.
Each chapter of "The Pursuit of Holiness" focuses on a single scripture. It then uses this scripture as a foundation for discussing one aspect of holiness. Chapter seven for instance, focuses on Romans 6:11 "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus." The title of this chapter is "Help in the Daily Battle." The author helps us to understand that when Satan comes to us and says "give up! You can never overcome sin." We can honestly say that's true if we are talking about doing it in our own power. But we are strengthened by God in our union with Him through Jesus Christ. We need to count on this fact as being true. Then we will experience the strength we need to fight temptation. In order to do this we must form the habit of continually realizing that we are dead to sin and alive to God.
Throughout this book the author stresses our need to learn to hate sin as God hates sin. We tend to make friends with certain sins such as gossip or a judgmental attitude. Somewhere we have a list of things that are OK in our book and a list of things that we would never do. We justify our own sin by looking at people who have committed a sin much worse than ours. We need to hate all sin just as God does. He doesn't make excuses for some sin. All sin has the sin consequence, death. We must see all sin in this way if we ever hope to overcome anything. The Bible often uses the concept of yeast in bread as an example of how sin affects us. If only a very small amount of sin is in us it affects everything. We often don't even see how far our sin really goes.
One of the tools that the Holy Spirit uses to help us overcome sin is the use of scripture. A daily Bible reading habit changes the way we think and see things. It changes our outlook and our focus. What we spend our time focusing on becomes what we think about and eventually do. "If we truly want to live in the realm of the Spirit we must continually feed our minds with His truth." We must come to the Word in a spirit of humility. We must recognize that we are sinful and often are blinded to the sinfulness of our own heart. We need the work of the Holy Spirit through God's Word to open our eyes to the truth.
Jerry Bridges offers concrete examples of how God uses all the tools that He has to help us to walk in this life of holiness. He focuses on the areas of our lives that we need to work on with the Holy Spirit's help. He helps us to see the habits we need to develop to truly become holy. God would not ask us to do something that He would not help us to do. He also helps us to see that the world will do everything in its power to prevent us from walking in holiness. At times it almost seems impossible to live this life he talks about. Just when I started to get discouraged Mr. Bridges would offer a gem of wisdom from God's word to bring me hope. He helps us to see that one day soon we will be with the Lord in all His glory forever worshipping Him. The joy that we experience here today pales in comparison to the joy we will experience forever.
I would recommend this book to any serious student of the Bible. It brings together many aspects of the Bible into an easily digestible format. It focuses on one aspect of Christian living, but without it there would be no life. This book could be used for a small group Bible study. Each chapter would be about right for an hour's study time. There is a workbook that can also be used for this purpose. There are 17 chapters which may be a little long for some Bible studies, but is well worth the time and effort.
At the beginning of this review I asked why people don't like to hear about sin and holiness. After reading this book I think I have an answer. When we are forced to take a good look at ourselves and honestly evaluate the condition of our hearts we find that we are not really all that nice and clean as we might thing we are. It is much easier to go through life pretending that everything is alright. When we find that we see ourselves more honestly we don't like what we see. The Bible says in the end times we will seek out teachers who tickle our ears. We want to hear that we are good and worthy. We want to think that we are a wonderful gift to humanity. Talking about sin and holiness forces us to see ourselves as we really are; a sinner and unclean.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024one of the best books I have ever read. My pastor preached a sermon series using this book as a starting point. Both were fantastic.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014Every disciple of a Jesus should read this book. It provides some plain easy to understand (something's hard to do) guidelines To fulfilling the Christian life. A small testimony of how this book helped me clear some things up in my mind. I struggled with a verse of scripture: Matt 7:21-23. "Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord is going to heaven". The verse goes on to describe these people. Those who have prophesied, cast out demons, and done many miracles in the name of Jesus. Jesus said he never knew them. That description could cover a lot of "Christians". Me too! I needed to know how to make sure that would not be me. This book helps clear the path. The author explains we (I) have some responsibility for my own salvation and holiness. Finally Jerry Bridges does a good job of taking the legalistic stigma off of what HOLINESS means. Thank you Mr Bridges.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2006Holiness: The nearly forgotten word of Christianity. If it was happiness, joy, love, grace, or mercy the modern church would be very familiar with it, but holiness is a word foreign to many professing Christians. Jerry Bridges has done an outstanding job in awakening Christians to the fact that God has a responsiblity in sanctifying us, and we as the children of God have a major role in our own pursuit of holiness. Jerry Bridges shows you as plain as day from the Word of God that Christ saves people from not only the penalty of sin (hell) but also from the power of sin. So many Christians sit in the church pew thinking how wonderful it will be to go to Heaven, yet their daily life is full of bondage to things that Christ has given them the power to overcome. The Christian life is not just victory over hell through Christ, but also over the sinful habits, addictions, and attitudes that we were enslaved to us sinners. Let Jerry Bridges turn your attention to what God's Word already states plainly. We have God's mercy to forgive us of sin, but we also have God's grace to empower us to live like Jesus did.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017I enjoyed reading this well written book. It definitely gave me a lot of food for thought and opportunity for study and notes. I personally feel like the author was very thoughtful and considerate in his writing. Not presumptuous at all!
- Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2012I was absolutely blown away by the first chapters of this book. They were so enlightend and inspired. It has been a long time since reading a book made me weep and simply want to worship God. It made me see the Holiness of God in a way, that showed me anything I do for Him will never touch what he has already done for me.I saw a God sitting on His throne High and lifted up and His train filled the temple. I wanted to cry Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of host. No one can read this book and look at God the same again.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016This book thoroughly explains the topic of holiness and why it matters to God. He also gives excellent reasons through the Bible as to why people struggle with sin after they've accepted Christ and what can be done about it.
The author backs up all his statements and explanations with scripture upon scripture. He is not flowery or emotional but explains a complicated subject in such a way that anyone can understand. Reading this book motivates you to not just like the author but to love Jesus in word and deed. Every Christian should read this book.
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- Daniel GrenierReviewed in Canada on October 20, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Excellent book, clear and easy to read.
- G.M.SReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and to understand.
I would give this book five stars, as I did love it. I was just what I was looking for and it contents were written in plain English and therefore very easy to understand.
If you are looking for a deeper relationship with Jesus and are struggling with your walk, this book will help you.
I would definitely recommend this book, it is well worth the price, as I believe you get so much from it.
- Paul MReviewed in Canada on May 21, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Good book and useful for developing strong character founded on God's word. Easy to read and comprehend. It challenges me.
- Mrs.M.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
An excellent book on the subject of God's holiness and his command to us to be holy because he is holy. This is not cultural holiness. Instead it is the holiness taught in the Bible by those inspired by God to write his message down. Read it and be challenged.
- JeffReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding the call to a Christian way of life.
This is the second time I have read this book, yet its message remains as compelling as ever. Very clearly written and succinct - a must read for anyone wishing to grasp the true essence of being a Christian.