Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, Paul and Shelby continue to discuss Paul's newest book,

Do You Believe, 12 historic doctrines to change your everyday life?

And today, Paul dives into the doctrine of holiness

and why it's such a divisive subject in a culture

that doesn't even acknowledge its existence.

This short excerpt is from a larger conversation

between Paul Tripp and Shelby Abbott on the Connecting podcast.

To listen to the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp and Shelby Abbott on the Connecting podcast. To listen to the full

episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 255. Now, here's Paul and Shelby.

In modern human culture, holiness is not even a category.

It's a category that doesn't exist.

You'll never hear it on cable news.

You'll never see it in the cultural conversation. A series on Netflix won't take you there. It's just, it's fallen completely out of cultural use.

And that is a tragedy.

Because the call to holiness

is a grace in itself, Shelby.

The call to holiness rescues me from me.

It rescues me from my selfish dark impulses.

It turns me into a person who loves and serves and is patient and humble and kind and merciful.

It makes me a beautiful man. and serves and his patient and humble and kind and merciful.

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