“Christian relationships go deeper than friendship, deeper than even family ties. We are connected to one another through our union with Christ, and our bond is forever. The fellow believers we sit next to in worship on Sunday morning are the same people we will sing with in eternity.”

A diminished view of union with Christ, Wilbourne believes, brings a diminished view of salvation: We may know what Christ saved us from, “but we lost sight of what God has saved us for.”