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• This book will require you to use your imagination because union with Christ is an enchanted reality. And we live in a disenchanted world.
• Imagination is that distinctly human capacity by which we image anything and everything that is not immediately visible to our eyes.
• One of the major arguments of this book is that union with Christ was once considered to be at the very heart of why the gospel is good news. Nothing is more basic or more central to the Christian life than union with Christ. And yet for many of us, union with Christ might feel vague and shadowy, not central or basic.
• As our understanding and appreciation of union with Christ has diminished, so too has our sense of what salvation means. We may know what God has saved us from, but have we lost sight of what God has saved us for?
• Becoming a Christian is not simply coming to believe certain things about a God who remains outside of you. And being a Christian is not simply about what you do or don’t do. Christianity is a life of faith, but it’s a life of faith. You have been grafted into God’s own life, invited in to participate in the fellowship of God. “God is faithful, by ...