Salvation

I fully believe that the church's greatest irresponsibility is not the lack of evangelism but the assumption of the religious people's salvation. When there are so many churches, the sad thing is that they aren't broken for the lost people yards away from their doorsteps, or thousands of miles away from country. But the saddest thing yet is that these churches hold within their walls the masked non-believer who feels unable to approach anyone about their searching because the church has done such a stellar job of telling everyone how to "be saved". "Today is the day of Salvation," not because salvation is a form of "being" something, or having a feeling or an emotion, or because of a prayer, or through something a pastor or priest can affirm... but because Salvation is Jesus and God saving us is through His Divine, Holy, Righteous, and Glorious election of His saints. When we as a church attest to someone's salvation by a pointing to a prayer or their feelings in some moment in time, we rob them of the truth of the character of God: that He receives glory in saving and damning anyone He so choices in accordance with His predestined will... but that He loves us so much that He sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, as a sacrificial atonement; to die on a cross - my death; to descend in Hell - my damnation; and to be buried - in my grave; but to then defeat them all in His precious resurrection. 

We cannot barter with God and offer anything to Him except what He has required. There is nothing - no life, possestion, assest, or worth - that exists that did not come from Him and that He doesn't already own... it is all His. To 'give' Him something is simplly placing it in the hands of the one who already owns it. To get to God we don't 'give' Him anything... to get to God He gave US Jesus and it is by Him and through Him we crusify our old selves and are saved. Salvation isn't "simple" because of what we can do or say or pray. Salvation is HERE because of how glorious He is. Praise God and to Him: Glory.