Thus God calls us to himself to find renewal, restoration, and reordering. We are called to an encounter with the life-giving God, who imparts transformative grace through the Spirit’s empowerment, making it possible for us to entertain the vocation given to humanity at creation, but now with more than was given to Adam and Eve: with the perfect exemplar of Jesus, who shows us what it means to be human, and the empowerment of the indwelling Spirit, the fruit of the New Covenant (Rom. 8:1–11).
