"God doesn't want you to 'Christianize' your life, but to crucify your dreams, desires, ambitions... and to seek His" - Todd Ahrend, International Director, the Traveling Team
Therefore, we do not need 'Christinization' but Sanctification.
"Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives." - Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, p. 648
If our sanctification is progressive...
Progressive: (adj.) favoring or advocating progress, improvement, or reform; making progress toward better conditions; characterized by continuous improvement.
... Then why do we think we 'go backwards' or 'get in a rut' so often? Is it maybe that we just aren't patient enough to see God working in order to understand that we really are making progress towards better conditions. Or maybe our presuppositions about what 'progress' means are so muddled-up that we don't know up from down. Or maybe we're just so sinful we forget right from wrong.
Whichever it is, sanctification is a process... one that will not be completed within this life time so it's probably not something you should rush impatiently through.
Trust in the Lord's timing.
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