If we want to understand who a Christian is, and why being a Christian is a privilege, we need to appreciate divine adoption. We need to begin to grasp the magnitude of Paul’s statements that “those who are led by the Spirit … are sons of God” (8:14); and that “we are God’s children” (v 16). “The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters … is the mainspring of Christian living … Our sonship to God is the apex of creation
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