We believe that Jesus Christ is in all Christians and is their life.

Every believer is in Jesus Christ.

Each believer has partaken of eternal life (Christ’s life) and thus has been spiritually united with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection, ascension and is seated in heaven with Him.

Every believer has one nature.  The old nature (old man) has already died with Christ and is removed forever by being buried with Christ.  The new nature (new man) was created in the believer through the resurrection of Christ.

The old nature and the flesh are not the same.

The believer’s identity in Christ is perfect because the righteousness of God has been imputed and imparted making each former sinner a saint.  This does not mean the believer is God or a god.  This does not mean that the believer is perfect in behavior.  In fact, the believer who understands the exchanged life will never reach a place in this life where he or she never sins again prior to receiving a glorified body.

The exchanged life is an objective truth which is real for every believer.  The subjective reality of the exchanged life in the believer is a maturing process brought about by God’s loving and sovereign illumination and revelation of Himself to His child.

This personal awareness of union with Christ comes from a spiritual understanding that one does not have the ability to live the Christian life in such a way that God is pleased.  This often comes from God’s Word, illumined by the Holy Spirit and through circumstances God orchestrates. The believer also comes to a place of understanding that Christ within is the source of every need. The Christian discovers that Christ within is the power to live a life which pleases God.

The results of union with Christ will become a daily experiential reality to each believer as he or she chooses to live by the Spirit and not by the flesh. Sanctification, then, is growth in depending on Christ living His life in and through the believer. This is not teaching passivity.

The Christian is no longer under law but is under grace