yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all (Col. 3:8–11). The transformation is vastly public and intimately personal. It is a gift and then a vocation. It is of course not possible—except that the sprout comes from the stump by the spirit! 11:10–11 These