The Christian life of grace became one of several «options» available for human life. (faith.org.uk)
This was the Christ of the Eucharist, the Bread of Life, the Christ of the vine and the branches, the Christ that is to say of the direct life of grace, the inner as well as the outer Way, Truth, and Life. (faith.org.uk)
Jesus» «journey» through suffering and death to Resurrection is the pattern and the power for our journey - both our journey through death to a share in Christ's Resurrection, and (in a more subtle way) our dying to sin and rising to the new life of grace (cf. Rom. (faith.org.uk)