Inevitable Deleterious Consequences

When other applied blessings, such as justification or sanctification, are made central, there are inevitably deleterious consequences for the Christian life, whereby incipient forms of antinomianism and legalism creep in. For example, a certain Lutheran view that justification precedes sanctification, so that it causes union with Christ and sanctification, ends up attributing to justification a renovative/transformative element.

 

Mark Jones, "Foreword," in "By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation, Second Edition", Richard Gaffin (Phillipsburg, NJ: PR Publishing, 2013), x.