Our inward spirituality must manifest itself in our outward holiness. Donald Shelby reminds us that "unless the ecstasy of God's indwelling presence becomes the agony of sacrifice and obedience -- working for God's kingdom by going the second mile, turning the other cheek, fulfilling our moral imperatives, and serving the least and the lost -- then our ecstasy is pure baloney, our piety is a rank form of idolatry, and our religious talk is mere rhetoric."
One of the primary reasons I'm a Methodist is because of the emphasis on social holiness. John Wesley, our father in the faith, passionately argued that there could be no holiness but social holiness… and that to turn Christianity into a solitary religion is to destroy it.
-- Maxie Dunnam in Living the Psalms
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