Glorious Hope in Our Sovereign Christ

That God should set such a high value on a community of sinners, rescued from perdition and still bearing too many traces of their former state, might well seem incredible were it not made clear that he sees them in Christ, as from the beginning he chose them in Christ. . . . [God intends] to accomplish his gracious plan through [us] . . . as the first fruits of the reconciled universe of the future.

— F.F. Bruce