'...what does it actually mean to be in Christ? Let me try an analogy. Imagine yourself at the airport, about to board a plane. The plane is on its way to, let's say, beautiful Perth. You're at the airport. There's you. There's the plane. It's going to Perth. And my question is: What relationship do you need to have with the plane?
Would it help, for example, to be under the plane? To submit yourself to the plane's eminent authority in the whole flying-to-Perth caper?
Would it help to be inspired by the plane? You go to the airport, you watch it take off, and you whisper to yourself, "One day, I could do that too..."?
What about following the plane? You know the plane is going to Perth, and so it stands to reason that if you note of the direction it goes, and pursue it as fast as your little legs will carry you, you too will end up in Perth.
Of course, the key relationship you need with the plane is not to be under it, behind it or inspired by it. You need to be in it.
Why? Because by being in the plane, what happens to the plane will also happen to you.'
Rory Shiner, One Forever, p.34.
