John - to extend this conversation perhaps to breaking point, and certainly way beyond the theme of the original post:

- I don’t regard the people of God as an ‘aggregation of individuals’. It is a genuine people, a community, bound together by their common allegiance to Jesus as Lord, and permeated by the Spirit. The essence of this is very simple. Allegiance to Jesus as Lord also means applying his teaching. This is where, according to G.K.Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been tried and found difficult.” But if you want to unpack the bags and find out what is inside - this is it, as presented in the NT, assuming that the NT still is of direct relevance to us today.

- You are right - it is both “Christ in you” and you “in Christ”. But there is a way in, which is as described above. There is no mystery at all in the NT about this.

- I didn’t find your final comment at all sarcastic, but quite amusing. It reminds me of a quote from James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ - which combines a punning play on the names of Saxon English kings with a cyclical view of life and history and a popular catchphrase: “Eggbirth, Eggblend, Eggburial and hatch as hatch can”. (Finnegans Wake - the deconstructive linguistic matrix text par excellence, which we might all do well to study - but that’s pointing to a separate post).