It is in Jesus’ “Priestly Prayer” of John 17 where Jesus offers the clearest vision of the eternal union with Jesus and God the Father to be offered to all believers. This is a never-ending prayer which Jesus will continue praying for us until we are all home in the Father’s house….
If you do not get Christ in Paul and Paul in Christ, you do not get Paul. Paul was a “Christ-mystic.” Though a complicated man, culturally traditional in some problematic ways, when it came to grasping the “Christ-event,” we all stand on his shoulders.
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