That They Be One

[OBW]

And yet I can be one with those folks.

And I can be one with people who know and understand progressive salvation just as I can with those who know and understand event salvation.

I was reading something on that a few days ago and the writer was noting that people who grow up in typical evangelical churches that teach a salvation event often have problems when they can't point to a line in the sand on day X but instead came to believe bit by bit and at some point were believers. And on the opposite side, there are some who just don't get what they were taught over all those years and then suddenly it all clicks and they are excited about it and it sort of scares their spiritual peers. I am comfortable with both even though I have been raised within and continue to meet with those who preach the salvation event. 60 years and counting now, although the first few I was not very aware of much, and I have to say that my salvation was not very "event" oriented. I believed before I knew a lot or prayed any particular prayer, and yet there were events that I sometimes pointed to (plural because I was raised in an Arminian group where you had the opportunity to redo your salvation every so often).