• The saved relationship is viewed in several different ways in the New Testament. Each figure emphasizes the headship of Christ and the subjection of the saved.
  • Christ is:
  • There is one:
    • Kingdom
    • Body
    • House
    • Temple
    • Sheepfold
    • How many churches?
  • The same ones who:
    • Are citizens in the kingdom
    • Are members of the body
    • …
  • You are not:
  • Each is depicting the saved relationship
    • Therefore one gets into the church the same way he gets into the kingdom or into the house or into the temple or into the sheepfold or into the body.
    • Once cannot be saved unless he is in the one body.
    • The only way one can get into the body is to be baptized into it (I Corinthians 12:13.
    • Therefore one is baptized into the saved relationship.