The shared center — held across the tradition
A changed heart and a disciplined church — neither alone.
The Pietist half asks whether you have been converted; the Anabaptist half asks whether the congregation can see it in how you live. The Brethren in Christ have insisted since the 1770s that a church which drops either question stops being one.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Entire sanctification — a second work of grace, and an argued one.
Taken from the Wesleyan holiness movement in the later 1800s: after conversion, a further crisis in which the Spirit cleanses the disposition to sin. Anabaptist-minded members have never been comfortable with it, and the denomination has repeatedly restated it in softer terms.
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