"I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" - Mk. 9:24

The gospel doesn't get as personal to me by my beliefs as by my unbeliefs.

The statement, "Jesus saved me," really only makes sense when you know from what you need to be saved. It's impossible to grow deep roots when the you are potted in the strictures of your unbelief, when instead you are meant to be flourishing by streams of water. Resurrection makes sense only to the dead.