But to live in, with, and for Christ makes dying pure gain. Death proves to be Christ-centered gain only for the one who is Christ-centered in this life. Newton was aware of this, he sought to live it himself, and his pen was tirelessly employed to help his friends learn to live in the light and grace of Christ’s radiant all-sufficiency, and to develop an appetite for the day when all the redeemed “unite in one song of endless praise to the Lamb that was slain.”
