Honoured
Thank you dear readers for sticking with me through the slump...the slump being the near year and a half that I didn't post. Yes, that's right--a year and a half...which makes you pathetic ; ). Just kidding. I laughed pretty hard when I saw your conversation. Glad I could be hospitable. : )
As for blogging, I don't know how comfortable I feel with it anymore! I think I'm just getting old and eccentric to the point where it's completely embarassing to bare all over the internet! The things I'd talk about--ya, sometimes would better be left unsaid. : )
One thing I have been thinking about lately is life. Yes, life--no small topic : ). More specifically, however, I've been thinking about where I fit. And questions about who I, as a "Christian" (I'm struggling with the term itself lately) am supposed to be in the context of life. I've been calling into question the things I've been constructed to believe, and am growing because of it. Here's a question for you: What is "salvation" to you? Is it a one-time thing? Is it a ticket to heaven? What is it?
posted by Jen at 11:35 PM
3 Comments:
Well good to see your time away hasn't made you rusty (maybe I am a bit pathetic, ask Karen). Hope school wraps up into a nice neat little package. In regards to your question:
A process of transformation. It has a start, it has a finished product, it has a messy but essential in-between.
10:39 AM, March 27, 2007
Hey Jen... Hope you don't mind my creepy discovery of your blog (i.e.-links from other people's blogs.) :)
Your question is something I've definitely (and continue to) grapple with. Salvation is a process. Are we not told to "work out [our] salvation"? (phil. 2). I often think that each day I must "become a Christian" -- not that Christ's salvation from the day before is void, but I must continually wake up and choose God. I must become more Christ-like.
However, salvation is also something that can be captured in a moment. There must be that moment of realization, and understanding where your heart hears the Holy Spirit, and says, "Yes, I'll follow." Everyone who is saved must come to that moment of choosing God for the first time. But then I think they must continue to choose God in all the moments that follow.
Tricky stuff. One of those Biblical truths that are paradoxically simple and utterly complicated.
Good question.
9:20 AM, May 02, 2007
hi there! It's nice to see some stirring on your little space again. :) salvation - yikes - something Nathan and I have hashed around a lot actually. I'm still reading about it and thinking it through.. probably too much to write about in a little comment box. We need a phone date, methinks. ;)
8:48 AM, July 14, 2007
Post a Comment
<< Home