is truer to God’s character of loving holiness, a portrait of God painted by the broad sweep of Holy Scripture. Paul writes: “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection of the dead” (Phil 3:11–12). Serving God is about much more than avoiding Hell or inheriting the kingdom of Heaven, as important as those are. Knowing Christ is about holiness, an ever-deepening
Page xiv