Commenting on 1 Corinthians 1.2:
... ἡγιασμένοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, κλητοῖς ἁγίοις ...
... to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling ...
here is a passage from "The Way of the Heart" (pp. 34-35):
is to live by the Spirit who is already deep into our lives (Cf. Gal 5:25). This Pauline passage may well witness the law of Christian life becomes what you are. " Everything has already won, but everything must be earned. Abolish, theoretically or practically one of these poles means distorting the Christian life. If all I was not already donated, then salvation is the result of my action. If everything is not to conquer, then this saving is reduced to something formal, external, of the conventional, which is not really mine, I did not change in depth, perhaps a diagnosis, for which it is sufficient that I know of be saved to be saved, perhaps even this, because they are still saved. In the tradition Christian, the two measures - divine and human - are not alternatives (this or that, this is more, less is), but correlative, they are: one raises the other. Because it is the awareness of gratuitous benevolence of God who seeks my freedom and my ability to respond adequately. No other force than this, which is the Holy Spirit, the movement that occurs when the two poles in contact, might be able to transform myself. The discovery dell'avvolgente gratuity of God (cf. Is 61:10) is the only suitable engine of the spiritual path. Therefore, we must "trust in God as if everything depended on him, and work as if everything depended on us."
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