The Apostle describes the Christian in three main terms. The first term is ‘saints.’ ‘Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints …’—the saints at Ephesus, the saints at Laodicea, the saints in every other local church whether small or large. The first thing to say of the Christian is that he is a saint. I fear that may sound rather strange to some of us. We tend to say, ‘Well, I am a Christian, but I am far from being a saint.’ We are afraid of making such a claim; somehow