God's plan for His holy people, the Church, is not that they should be removed from the evil world, but that they should live separated lives, lives fully devoted to Him in the midst of the world with all of its evils. In this respect they follow the example of Jesus who, though He came into close contact with the godless world and touched people of all stages of moral living, was Himself "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners" (Heb. 1:28).

The separateness of the Church is its strength. The Church cannot save the world by becoming like the world. Its very separateness provides its saving qualities.

"The narrowness of the Pentecostal Church," says Dr. J. I. Brice, "was its power. Such narrowness has always been power. Singleness of aim is the secret of success in the task of any specialty. Concentration is the law of power and efficiency. For the sake of the redemption of the world, the Church must narrow its allegiance; and as it does so, it will find its strength" (Pentecost, page 142).