Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in one of his last letters from prison, before he was executed by the Nazis, wrote, “The key to it all is the ‘in Christ’.”
In Christ there is no condemnation. “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1)
In Christ we are reconciled to God. We are “now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:24) “In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.” (Corinthians 5:19)
In Christ we become children of God. “In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” (Galatians 3:26-27)
In Christ we are built up and established in faith. “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith.” (Colossians 2:6-7)
In Christ there is true community. “We, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.” (Romans 12:5)
In Christ there is unity. “There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
In Christ we are able to walk in the way God sets before for us. “For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)
In Christ we are set free from what has had us bound. “For freedom Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1)
In Christ we are raised to new life.