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What Is Saving Faith? Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure is unavailable, but you can change that!

What happens in the heart when it experiences real saving faith? John Piper argues that faith in Christ is not saving unless it includes what he calls “the affectional dimension of treasuring Christ.” Nor is God glorified as he ought to be unless he is treasured in being trusted. Saving faith in Jesus Christ welcomes him forever as our supreme and inexhaustible pleasure. What Is Saving Faith?...

If the relationship between saving faith and justification is not what Roman Catholicism says it is, and yet saving faith, with its affectional elements, really is a good thing, not a sin, how does it not creep into the ground of justification as something virtuous? Or how does the “goodness” of saving faith not contaminate the instrument of justification with meritorious virtue? This chapter deals with my fourth reason for digging into
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