Welcome to the Family: What to Expect Now That You’re a Christian (Biblia.com)

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When you become part of God’s family and join a local congregation, you encounter new expectations, privileges, vocabulary, and more. In this accessible book, Pastor John MacArthur shows new Christians how to process all this and “plug in” to the church. He gives converts the big picture of what it means to be a part of the fellowship of believers.

Simply put, your adoption means that the life of God dwells intimately in you. He is your “Daddy” in a way no human parent can be. Human parents can adopt children and love them as much as they do their natural children, but they can’t impart their nature to an adopted child. Yet that is exactly what God has done for you. You have become a partaker “of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4) in that the Spirit of God dwells in you. You and I became God’s children, not through our own ability or effort,

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