- Salvation is more than walking the isle, saying a prayer, or getting your ticket to heaven. It is a personal experience, but it is not private. Our salvation is a shared salvation. Therefore, this journey called the Christian life was never designed by God to be done alone.
- Spiritual formation, being conformed to image of Christ, is to be our goal, and it cannot be done alone.
- Christianity is a journey, not merely a destination.
- We are saved into the Kingdom of God and saved out of the kingdom of darkness. Therefore, we are saved from something and into something. Believers were added to the church; the community of saints. The church is not a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
- I am coming to the conclusion that it is more important to know how to live; to be ready to live, than being ready to die. Jesus' offer is one of life, not just escaping to heaven when we die. I think we have missed it. We have been so enamored with trying to get people ready to die, we have forgotten that people want to know how to live their life. I think we need a paradigm shift in our thinking concerning evangelism.
JB
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