PROCESS TO SALVATION After salvation, it’s sweet, abundant life. Over the years, as I have attempted to share with my church peers God’s truth, the most common reaction has been: “We are all in progress, Colin, so don’t expect us to be all at the same place.” This has been from middle-aged folks who have grown up in the evangelical community. They’ve attended church for decades. Many of them have been in leadership positions at their churches. As time went on, and I heard this so many times, along with other excuses as to why they still sinned, I got the impression that they truly believed God was okay with their sin, as long as they were trying hard to stop sinning. I was given a book to read by someone very dear to me, which he hoped would ‘convert me to Calvinism.’ The author went on and on about the absolute necessity to try very hard to be holy, but reminded me repeatedly that it is impossible for any human being to be holy. ‘It’s our effort that God is pleased with, not the attained goal, he assured me. Those ripples of righteous anger rattled around in me much as I waded through that book. It truly was the hardest book to read I have ever had the misfortune of attempting to do so.
PROCESS TO SALVATION
PROCESS TO SALVATION
PROCESS TO SALVATION
PROCESS TO SALVATION After salvation, it’s sweet, abundant life. Over the years, as I have attempted to share with my church peers God’s truth, the most common reaction has been: “We are all in progress, Colin, so don’t expect us to be all at the same place.” This has been from middle-aged folks who have grown up in the evangelical community. They’ve attended church for decades. Many of them have been in leadership positions at their churches. As time went on, and I heard this so many times, along with other excuses as to why they still sinned, I got the impression that they truly believed God was okay with their sin, as long as they were trying hard to stop sinning. I was given a book to read by someone very dear to me, which he hoped would ‘convert me to Calvinism.’ The author went on and on about the absolute necessity to try very hard to be holy, but reminded me repeatedly that it is impossible for any human being to be holy. ‘It’s our effort that God is pleased with, not the attained goal, he assured me. Those ripples of righteous anger rattled around in me much as I waded through that book. It truly was the hardest book to read I have ever had the misfortune of attempting to do so.