For Jesus, salvation is less about getting you into heaven and more about getting heaven into you. It's not just about him becoming like us but also about us becoming like him. It's less of a transaction and more of a transformation. It's not just about what he has done for us but also about what he has done, is doing, and will do in us if we apprentice under him. It's about being a person who not only is loved by God but also is pervaded by the love of God. It's not just accepting the merit of his death but also receiving the power of his resurrection.

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This has been a huge theme in my spiritual formation for the last 8 years: the Gospel is about so much more than I ever thought! JMC agrees.

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And it’s not just about you and me as individuals, but also about the formation of a whole new humanity and the healing of the cosmos itself. —Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer