The Consecrated Way

The Consecrated Way to Christian Perfection, written by A. T. Jones, is an exposition of the work of Christ as our High Priest as relating to the perfection of Christian character. A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner presented this message to the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference Session of Seventh-day Adventists. Their message met resistance from leaders such as G. I. Butler, Uriah Smith and others. The session discussed crucial theological issues such as the meaning of "righteousness by faith", and the nature of the Godhead, and the relationship between law and grace. Ellen White supported Waggoner's Christ centered view on justification by faith and their refutation of Arianism, and later wrote that she had been teaching for "forty-five years" this same message as Jones and Waggoner presented at that session.