Is God incomplete so It needs an ‘offering’ from us? Is Grace intermittent or constant (like gravity)? ‘No one can be separated from the love of God’-- are we One with God or not? Is the relationship a given or something that fluctuates or needs improvement or negotiating (offering)? Are we already a ‘temple of the Holy Spirit’? Is the Word already incarnate in us since ‘the beginning’ (before time began Jn 1:1). Maybe we are the Christ (members of It) -- no chance of not being part of It, any more than a fish can swim out of water. 

Actually, God is unknown to us.  I am not wedded to a theology that does not adequately explain suffering and has no solution for it. Thanks for your thought-provoking views Dennis. I don’t imagine I have a personal relationship with a god any more than I have a personal relationship with gravity or with the sun that shines.