Saving Faith—A Living Connection with Christ (2)

We have seen that a proper understanding of faith begins, not with the activity of believing, but with the truth that faith is first and essentially a living connection with Christ, the bond which God by His Holy Spirit establishes when He grafts us into His own dear Son. God's Work Alone When we consider the establishment of that graft, we get to the very heart of the truth of the Christian faith. It is in wisdom that the Heidelberg Catechism approaches the question of salvation with this...