Accessing Jesus

Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. (Rom. 6:1–5)

How do we access Jesus? How do we build our relationship with him? What does it look like to be one with Christ?

“But does this Jesus remain at a distance? How do we actually access him? What is the nature of our relationship with him?

The New Testament gives a resounding answer. Those who collapse into him in repentance and faith are united to him—joined to him—one with him. This, and not the doctrine of justification or reconciliation or adoption or any other important biblical teach- ing—is the controlling center, according to the New Testament, of what it means to be a Christian.” Deeper by Dane Ortlund