Our catechetical series continues, drawn now from the second section of the book, I Am His: Learning from the Prayer Book Catechism, All that a Christian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul’s Health
God the Holy Ghost
I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Life everlasting. Amen.
Question. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief?
Answer. Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the elect people of God.
For us and In us
What Christ accomplished, in his death, resurrection, and ascension, he accomplished in his perfect humanity and for us. In him, we have already died, risen, and ascended. In him, nothing stands between me and the Father, nothing hinders my return to God. No longer the slaves of blind or hostile powers, in him we are free to lisve for God, set apart and consecrated to serve him in new lives of righteousness and holiness, which is the beginning of eternal life in us. Yet how are we in him? How does what he accomplished for us, as our representative, become accomplished in us, by participation in him?