true saving faith is not a passive or partial reliance upon Christ, but a reliance that is active and growing. Through the continuing work of sanctification, it eventually encompasses the entirety of the believer’s life. The proof of saving faith is not that once upon a time we merely “accepted Christ” through a prayer we repeated by rote, but that since the moment we first believed the gospel, Christ’s claims about Himself and His claim upon us continue to be a greater reality in our lives.
