Quotes from Robert Letham

The incarnation is the indispensable basis for union with Christ.

As the Father is fountain and the Son is river, we are said to drink the Spirit.

Union with Christ is the foundational basis for sanctification and the dynamic force that empowers it.

Union with Christ is right at the center of the Christian doctrine of salvation. The whole of our relationship with God can be summed up in such terms. John Calvin agreed when he wrote: "For we await salvation from him not because he appears to us afar off, but because he makes us, ingrafted into his body, participants not only in all his benefits but also in himself."1