Life in Christ
Understanding God's Saving Work
Salvation is God's work of uniting sinners to His risen Son through saving faith by the Holy Spirit. Every saving blessing is found in Christ because Christ Himself is the believer's life.
One Saving Work
Begin with the question most pressing to you, then follow the connections Scripture makes.
Questions People Bring
These are connected studies, not required steps. Each begins with a real question and points toward life in Christ.
Adam's rebellion established humanity's order of self-rule and death. Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, fulfilled the human vocation Adam abandoned and gives resurrection life to those united to Him.
When a sinner entrusts himself to Christ, the Holy Spirit joins him to the risen Son so that Christ's life becomes his life. This is conversion, regeneration, and union with Christ.
Justification, forgiveness, reconciliation, adoption, the Spirit, inheritance, and hope are not separate prizes but dimensions of sharing Christ's life.
Christ's life in the believer bears fruit, and God keeps those He has joined to His Son. Assurance rests first on Christ and the Spirit's witness.
Salvation reaches its completion in bodily resurrection, glorification, judgment without condemnation for those in Christ, and life with God in a renewed creation.
The Sinner Believes; the Spirit Gives Life
When the sinner entrusts himself to Christ in saving faith, the Spirit joins him to Christ so that Christ's life becomes his life. This is conversion and regeneration, and in this union every saving blessing becomes his at once.
To have Christ is to have life.