Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God
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Perhaps one of the greatest barriers to faith is not the things we don’t know but the things we think we know yet we’re wrong about. We think of heaven as the pleasure factory rather than life with God. We think of salvation as being able to avoid pain rather than being made right. We think of the gospel as the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven rather than the announcement that life with God is now possible on earth through Jesus. We think of faith as what we’re supposed to believe rather than the mental map about how things are that we carry with us and inevitably live ...more
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With this understanding of union with Christ, discipleship suddenly takes its proper place. It’s not extra-credit work to earn something. It’s the means by which we experience union with Christ more fully and deeply. If we want Christ, we will want to be disciples.
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Of all the good news the gospel brings, the greatest—and indeed the door to all the rest—is that you can be united to Christ. It’s really possible. Union with Christ is not an abstract idea. It is a powerful reality. And if Jesus has joined his life to yours, then you have been given everything you need for life and godliness (2 Pet. 1:3). But unless you are united to him, all that he has done for you remains useless and of no value to you. 7