We must get this clear in our minds. Christ was not like a tennis player who struggles valiantly all through a tennis tournament, but loses the last match, and so goes home. He was not even like the champion who wins the last match, and then, with the tournament over, retires. For Christ, going home to the Father was itself part of the tournament, an indispensable part of the process and provision for making his disciples holy. And not only his disciples then, but all his disciples ever since. This,