The Holy Spirit Creates and Sustains

Distinctive to Reformed theology from its birth has been its insistence that salvation, both relationally in justification and transformationally in sanctification, is ours entirely by virtue of our grace-given union with Christ in his death and resurrection—a union that God the Holy Spirit creates and sustains.

 

Mark Jones, Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest? (Phillipsburgs, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 2013), x