JUST GIVE YOUR LIFE AWAY

A conservative Protestant might say: “Even if a person is weak, confused, spiritually dry, and barely changing, they can still be saved by grace.” The biological Gospel model will ask: “But if nothing has been born for decades — where is the life?” The simplest way to explain the difference between the two theories is this: in conservative theology salvation is thought of as a “point” after which everything is settled. The Gospel, as Jesus taught it, asserts that salvation is a line, a process that takes time. There is indeed a first point on the line, but whether there will be other points along the line of growth is the crucial question.