Saturday, April 23

Costly to Him and priceless to us

By vanquishing our sin in these two respects–paying sin’s penalty and purging sin’s power–Christ fits us for membership in his holy community. Costly to him and priceless to us is our induction into the body of Christ.

— Timothy Savage
The Church: God's New People
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 14