A New Affection

In the book Total Church, Tim Chester and Steve Timmis write,

I love being married, but I love being married because it unites me with my wife. In the same way, I love the gospel, but I love the gospel because it unites me with my Savior. We are not saved by principles or strategies but by a person.

They also point us to consider the sermon by Thomas Chalmers, "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection."