As Jesus continues to instruct His disciples during the Upper Room Discourse, He expands upon the allegory of the Vine and the branches. His focus turns to the relationship between Himself and His disciples. He emphasizes that He is the Vine and they are the branches and without Him they have neither fruit nor life; that any branch that is not abiding in the Vine is useless and no different than a fruitless branch that is cut off and cast away. In this relationship we will find that Christianity is wholly systemic, flowing from Christ to us and cannot be absorbed or created through external means. After wrestling with the complex way Jesus addresses both salvation and sanctification, we will analyze how the church of today is miserably failing to recognize and implement these fundamental principles of systemic Christianity.