Couldn't have said this better myself. 
"Christians are continually trying to change their lives; but God calls us the experience the exchanged life. Christianity is not a self improvement program. It isn't a reformation project. It is resurrection! It is a new life! And it is expressed in terms of a total exchange of identity. Jesus Christ identified Himself with us in our death in order that we might be indentified with Him in His resurrection. We give Christ all that we were - spiritually dead, guilty sinners - and Christ gives us all that He is - resurrected life, forgiveness, acceptance." - Bob George, Classic Christianity (see also 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Galatians 2:20)
"Christians are continually trying to change their lives; but God calls us the experience the exchanged life. Christianity is not a self improvement program. It isn't a reformation project. It is resurrection! It is a new life! And it is expressed in terms of a total exchange of identity. Jesus Christ identified Himself with us in our death in order that we might be indentified with Him in His resurrection. We give Christ all that we were - spiritually dead, guilty sinners - and Christ gives us all that He is - resurrected life, forgiveness, acceptance." - Bob George, Classic Christianity (see also 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Galatians 2:20)
