Interview: How would Jerry Bridges explain "union with Christ" to a new believer?

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Interview: How would Jerry Bridges explain "union with Christ" to a new believer?

December 6, 2011 by Tony Reinke Categories: Interviews

The doctrine of union with Christ "lies at the heart of the Christian life," wrote Sinclair Ferguson.* And yet it's also a somewhat bizarre idea to modern sensibilities. So I asked author and teacher Jerry Bridges to explain this prominent theological concept in as simple terms as possible. What is union with Christ? And does this have any bearing on our pursuit of personal holiness?

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Note: For more detail on union with Christ, see Bridges's books The Gospel for Real Life (chapter 3) and The Discipline of Grace (chapters 3 and 4).

* The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction (Banner of Truth, 1989), 104.

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