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A key to real Christian living, union with Christ

Life with Christ, in Christ, by faith in God's Spirit...a key, if not the key to real Christian life. Believing our real union with Christ is what the real Christian life is all about.  True Christians operate, not from their own resources alone, but with the life of God connecting with their lives. A relationship with God is not merely knowing things about him. It is supposed to intimate, like a wife knowing her husband. Quote from John Calvin about union with Christ: “We must now examine this question. How do we receive those benefits which the Father bestowed on his only-begotten Son–not for Christ’s own private use, but that He might enrich poor and needy men? First, we must understand that as long as Christ remains outside of us, and we are separated from Him, all that He has suffered and done for the salvation of the human race remains useless and of no value for us. Therefore, to share with us what He has received from the Father, He had to become ours and t...