What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?

Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 12:41PM
rebecca in Westminster Catechism

The members of the invisible church by Christ enjoy union and communion with him in grace and glory.[1]

1. John 17:21, 24

   … that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
   
   O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

   Eph. 2:5-6

   even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…

Question 65, Westminster Larger Catechism

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