As Christians we have been baptized, immersed, drenched, and soaked in Jesus in the re-creating waters of baptism and signed and rubbed in the sweet smell of the oil of the Holy Spirit. So by the two hands of God, the very hands that recovered and restored God’s original creative purpose for the world, we are literally, really, and truly brought into a participation in the life of God’s vision, a mystical union with God.
-Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 175.