Too many Christians talk about salvation as an event or a status and fail to think of salvation as an ongoing process. In the New Testament, salvation is referred to in terms of past, present, and future. We have been saved, we are being saved and we will be saved.
To prompt you to further thought about this this, I'm directing you to a recent post by Greg Boyd on the ReKnew blog. The post is titled: Beyond Theoretical Salvation.
Profession of Christ’s lordship in our lives isn’t a magical formula. It’s more than a theory about how we can get saved if we confess the right doctrines. The confession has meaning only when it’s understood to be a genuine pledge to surrender one’s life to Christ. But I want us to notice something that is as obvious as it is overlooked. Our pledge to surrender our life to Christ isn’t itself the life we pledged to surrender to Christ. The actual life we pledged to surrender is the life we live each and every moment after we make the pledge. For the only life we have to surrender is the life we live moment-by-moment.
Think about it. Our lives are nothing more than a series of moments—a series of “nows”—strung together. To surrender our “life” is to surrender this. But you obviously can’t surrender this all at once. You can only do it one moment at a time.
The pledge of life isn’t the life we pledge.
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Profession
of Christ’s lordship in our lives isn’t a magical formula. It’s more
than a theory about how we can get saved if we confess the right
doctrines. The confession has meaning only when it’s understood to be a
genuine pledge to surrender one’s life to Christ. (See yesterday’s post.) But I want us to notice something that is as obvious as it is overlooked. Our pledge to surrender our life to Christ isn’t itself the life we pledged to surrender to Christ. The actual life we pledged to surrender is the life we live each and every moment after we make the pledge. For the only life we have to surrender is the life we live moment-by-moment.
Think about it. Our lives are nothing more than a series of moments—a series of “nows”—strung together. To surrender our “life” is to surrender this. But you obviously can’t surrender this all at once. You can only do it one moment at a time.
The pledge of life isn’t the life we pledge.
- See more at: http://reknew.org/2014/07/beyond-theoretical-salvation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beyond-theoretical-salvation#sthash.fyKs5rdG.dpuf
Think about it. Our lives are nothing more than a series of moments—a series of “nows”—strung together. To surrender our “life” is to surrender this. But you obviously can’t surrender this all at once. You can only do it one moment at a time.
The pledge of life isn’t the life we pledge.
- See more at: http://reknew.org/2014/07/beyond-theoretical-salvation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beyond-theoretical-salvation#sthash.fyKs5rdG.dpuf
Profession
of Christ’s lordship in our lives isn’t a magical formula. It’s more
than a theory about how we can get saved if we confess the right
doctrines. The confession has meaning only when it’s understood to be a
genuine pledge to surrender one’s life to Christ. (See yesterday’s post.) But I want us to notice something that is as obvious as it is overlooked. Our pledge to surrender our life to Christ isn’t itself the life we pledged to surrender to Christ. The actual life we pledged to surrender is the life we live each and every moment after we make the pledge. For the only life we have to surrender is the life we live moment-by-moment.
Think about it. Our lives are nothing more than a series of moments—a series of “nows”—strung together. To surrender our “life” is to surrender this. But you obviously can’t surrender this all at once. You can only do it one moment at a time.
The pledge of life isn’t the life we pledge.
- See more at: http://reknew.org/2014/07/beyond-theoretical-salvation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beyond-theoretical-salvation#sthash.fyKs5rdG.dpuf
Think about it. Our lives are nothing more than a series of moments—a series of “nows”—strung together. To surrender our “life” is to surrender this. But you obviously can’t surrender this all at once. You can only do it one moment at a time.
The pledge of life isn’t the life we pledge.
- See more at: http://reknew.org/2014/07/beyond-theoretical-salvation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beyond-theoretical-salvation#sthash.fyKs5rdG.dpuf
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