Sublime

Who God is, what sin is, who Christ is and what he did, and what faith is.

the covenant promises are actually fulfilled in a suffering Messiah

John Stott put this wonderfully in his masterful book about the cross: “Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance).”5

True Christianity is neither solely sorrow over sin or joy in Christ; it is both, married together, residing in the human heart, which personally receives, believes, and acts on these truths.

The intellectual underpinnings of Bonhoeffer’s convictions on life in a Christian faith community can be traced to his early works Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being, which undergirded his interpretation of the church as a primary form of God’s self-revelation.

Who we are and what we have in Christ can always stand more careful teaching. It is foundational to everything else in the Christian life. They get so much of the “upstairs” right but they are wrong in how they apply it “downstairs.”

Augustinian term, is totus Christus, the whole Christ,

This man voices his struggle because he takes so personally the Lord’s lovingkindness.

We need the gospel that is in our brothers, and they need the gospel that is in us. So accountability must ask the hard questions, but it must do so as if Jesus were real. Because he is. And since Jesus is real, his personality and his judgments should shape the personality and judgments of accountability groups. Our hearts should not be shrunken