- Union With Christ: The Application of Christ’s Redemption in its Actual Beginning - Augustus Hopkins Strong
Pages 793-809 of his Systematic Theology. "...the effects upon the world which may be expected to follow the full recognition by the church of this doctrine of Union with Christ: "Humanity is a dead and shattered vine, plucked up from its roots in God, and fit only for the fires. But in Christ, God has planted a new vine, a vine full of his own divine life, a vine into which it is his purpose one by one to graft these dead and withered branches, so that they may once more have the life of God flowing through them and may bear the fruits of heaven. It is a supernatural, not a natural process. But the things that are impossible with men are possible with God, and the process shall not cease until he has gathered together in one all things in Christ, and in him has perfectly redeemed and glorified the humanity for which and to which Christ has given his life." AUGUSTUS H. STRONG. ROCHESTER, JUNE 14, 1913.
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