What changes in our lives when we pass from death to life in Christ?

Paul Carrington discusses the transformation that occurs in a person's life when they move from death to life, a shift marked by a profound increase in love. This love is not limited to the church and fellow believers, but extends to all people, with a strong desire for those outside the church to come to know the Lord. The believer's interactions with family and the world grow in love, and their life begins to revolve around Christ, where previously it may have revolved around self and sin.

This new life is not just marked by love for others, but also by a deepening relationship with Christ. There is a noticeable increase in prayer and Bible reading, and a clear shift in focus from self to Christ. The believer's life, once centered around self and sin, now orbits around Christ, a shift brought about by the transformative power of Christ's love and grace.

1 John 4:19 (NKJV): 'We love Him because He first loved us.'

The other thing I would say is that the person who has passed from death to life, their whole life becomes a life of love towards others. They love the church, they love the people of God, and even the people outside of the church, they have this desire for them to come to know the Lord. There's a growth in terms of how they interact with their own family members and people in the world. There's an aspect of prayer and Bible reading. And so really the whole life begins to orbit around Christ, whereas previously it orbited around the Lord only knows whatever you were being saved from, your own self and sin, idolatry and other things like that, gradually your life begins to orbit increasingly around Christ.