When we embrace who God is, what he has done, and who we are, we can truly live into our identity as his people who have received his mercy.

Once we have tasted the goodness of Christ and his gospel we can boldly and confidently work alongside Jesus as ‘royal priests.’

Once we have tasted the goodness of Christ and his gospel, we will long for more, and is this longing that fuels our continued growth.

Because we have been born again by the imperishable seed of our Heavenly Father, our character and our love increasingly reflects his.

Christians live in the [right] fear of God because he is our Heavenly Father who is altogether holy and just and is the one who judges fully and impartially.

We focused on the idea that our new status as God’s children (identity) both exhorts and empowers us to be holy like our Father in Heaven is holy (activity)

Grace is [the characteristic of God's work] that enables God to confront human indifference and rebellion with an inexhaustible capacity to forgive and to bless.

God’s chosen people will be alienated from the priorities and values of the culture around them. Though this will inevitably result in suffering, that suffering produces joy.

By virtue of being elect to respond in faith to the gospel, we are at the same time necessarily alienated from the priorities and values of the culture around us. This will inevitably result in suffering.