Schaeffer: died, heaven, risen

The Bible says that in the present life we are, in practice, to live by faith as though we are dead now.

 For in that He died, He died unto sin once for all: but in that He liveth He liveth unto God.  Likewise reckon (this is an act of faith) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin (Romans 6:10-11)

As Jesus died in history, and once for all was dead to sin, so now we are called in faith to count ourselves dead, in practice, at this present moment of history;  not in some far-off world of religious ideas, but at this moment on the clock.  By faith we are to live now as though we have already died...

...So the sixth point is that we are to live by faith now, in the present history, as though we had already been raised from death...

Now what does this mean in practice, so that it will not just be words going over our heads?  First of all, it certainly means this: that in our thoughts and lives now we are to live as though we had already died, been to heaven and come back again as risen.

True Spirituality, pp36&37