Conversion & Calling, Student Workbook, SW01

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C O N V E R S I O N A N D C A L L I N G

a. We are now “in Christ” who becomes our source and our existence, Col. 3.4.

b. Regardless of our background, condition, or social history, through faith in Christ we have become one in Jesus Christ.

(1) Gal. 3.28

(2) Col. 3.11

3. Believers have experienced the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit (i.e., they now share God’s spiritual DNA through Jesus Christ), Titus 3.5-6.

4. Through the Holy Spirit, we have become joined to the life of God in Christ, and share together in the one true life which fills up the people of God.

a. 1 Cor. 12.13

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b. Eph. 1.13

c. There is and has ever been only one body and one faith, and only one hope of our calling, Eph. 4.4-6.

d. The Christian life is a communal life, a life that is born, raised, and matured in the context of Christian community.

B. Through regeneration, God implants us into his community through spiritual adoption.