I was so pleased to receive the latest bulletin from christianitytoday.com and read an interesting article about the traditional Baptist response to how one can be saved. It seems there is an awakening taking place in some circles at least to the fact that one needs to do more than just believe. I just addressed this last Sunday, so I found this interesting myself.
Go to the following link for this article;
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/...rch/29.72.html
The following is an exerpt from this artilce by David P. Gushee;
"If Jesus is to be believed, inheriting eternal life involves a comprehensive divine assessment at every step along our journey, not just at its inception.
Mediocrity and hypocrisy characterize the lives of many avowed Christians, at least in part because of our default answer to the salvation question. Anyone can, and most Americans do, "believe" in Jesus rather than some alternative savior. Anyone can, and many Americans sometimes do, say a prayer asking Jesus to save them. But not many embark on a life fully devoted to the love of God, the love of neighbor, the moral practice of God's will, and radical, costly discipleship.
If it comes down to a choice between our habitual, ingrained ways of talking about salvation and what Jesus himself said when asked the question, I know what I must choose."
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