3 Covenant Renewal: Worship as Sacrifice For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. —Hebrews 4:12 God’s personal relations with us take the form of a covenant. In other words, the covenant structures God’s personal relations with us. I argued in the last chapter that we do not merely have a personal relationship with God or with Jesus.
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