Last semester I was sitting in a class when my teacher began talking about the tesion of being sanctified and sent. This has really been on my heart for the last couple of weeks. In John 17:16-19 as Jesus is praying for his disciples, Jesus talks about how his disciples have been sent into the world as he has been sent into the world. In only a sentence later Jesus says that the same people should be sanctified or set apart from the world.
How is one to both be sent into the world while simultaneously be set apart from the world. I believe this is a tension that all believers face. Many Christians want only to be either sent or sanctified. There are so many Christians who have no non-Christian friends. They want to be different by being set apart, yet they are not reaching the ones who do not know Christ. Others are "sent" they want to be in the world, but do not wish to be set apart or different. It is hard to be different, it is also hard to reach out of our comfort zones of our Christian friends to teach people about Jesus.
This is a tension that each one of us must face every day. We must learn to be both sent into the world and sanctified from the world. It is a very tight rope that we must walk to be sent and sanctified.
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