Relating Our Obedience

April 2023 7 Relating Our Obedience Not Ground How do we relate our obedience to our experience of covenant fellowship? First, our obedience is not the ground or basis for the fellowship we enjoy with God. Christ in His perfect work is the basis or reason for all that we have and enjoy in God’s covenant. In its summary statement, Synod 2018 said, “We experience fellowship with God…on the basis of what Christ has done (ground).” Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, with His life-long obe-...