Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you. Each is both a part that is like the Whole and also contributes to the Whole, just as Paul teaches in his analogy of the body (1 Corinthians 12:12–30). The world we live in today no longer enjoys any natural sense of this wholeness, and therefore of holiness. In our secular mind, we do not inherently and naturally “participate” in this creation, but we think we
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