Union With Christ: Covenant or Contract?
Over the past four years I’ve become increasingly convinced that the heart of Paul’s theology can be traced back to his encounter with the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus.
“Saul, Saul, why do you you persecute me?”
After this encounter—and still blind—Paul sat in a house on the Street called Straight, he was surely meditating deeply on these words. He hadn’t harmed Jesus directly, had he? He had persecuted those who follow this Jesus, but that’s not how Jesus had put it. Apparently this Jesus was in such tight union with his people that to persecute them was to persecute Him.
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