People Do Not Drift Toward Holiness

discussing with some of the people I am training to preach God's word last night we spoke about how we need to preach grace but also living by grace. We need to encourage God's people not to depend on their actions to save them but to act because they are saved. Here is a post by Josh Etter that I found helpful:

"Hard work is not the opposite of grace, it is the result of experiencing grace.

D. A. Carson explains:

People do not drift toward Holiness.

Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
(For the Love of God, Volume 2, paragraphing mine)"

original article is on Desiring God website here:
People Do Not Drift Toward Holiness