Salvation

Mute Troubadour posted an excellent piece on salvation recently:"...As a preacher friend of mine from Australia likes to say, "There are three tenses of salvation in the Bible. We are saved, we are being saved, and we will be saved." The latter two are part of constant and faithful discipleship."

I think the "salvation transaction" he mentions earlier in his post is symptomatic of the oversimplification of Christianity that Americans tend to perpetrate. Whereas Biblical faith is a very deep and complex phenomenon, we feel the need to say everything quickly and succinctly and accomplish everything - such as salvation - instantly, often at the expense of a measure of truth and honesty.