Rooted in Holiness: slaves to righteousness…

Healthy plants need healthy roots. Roots give stability, they take up the nutrients that are needed for growth, and they seek out hydration for the desert times.

To be healthy as Christians, we need to be rooted – searching out those things that will sustain us for the long haul, going deep into those things that will give us stability.

In this month's Encounter Day, David will be helping us to reflect on what it means to be rooted in holiness. 

'The call to holiness for God’s people seems to have gone out of fashion. In the 21st Century we are told that we should be authentic, true to ourselves, that we should live as we like as long as we don’t hurt anyone.

Suggesting that we should live holy lives, lives that are orientated and dedicated to God, might seem old fashioned and possibly pharisaical.  

But God’s old…