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November 2007 41 This is how Anglican J. I. Packer defines “the life-embracing bedrock reality of the covenant relationship between the Creator and Christians” : “A covenant relationship is a voluntary mutual commitment that binds each party to the other.” 25 Packer roots this bond between God and us in the inter-Trinitarian communion of the Godhead. In answer to his own question, “Why does God … desire covenantal fellowship with rational beings?” he answers, ...the nature of such fellowship...