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Salvation Applied by The Spirit: Union with Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The doctrine of believers’ union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine—a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most comprehensive...

The Holy Spirit is responsible chiefly for bringing those separated from Christ into saving union with him. He is the person of the Godhead who joins believers to Christ. Therefore, it should not surprise us to find the Spirit active in the aspects of the application of salvation that make up union. John Murray is correct in saying, “Union with Christ is in itself a very broad and embracive subject. It is not simply a step in the application
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