As we come to the fourth major way in which to understand salvation we begin to see that sin is more of what changes us than we first believed. It shows that we are disordered in how we feel and understand the world and that conversion is more than a one-time belief or prayer, but a change in how we live and are.

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You can be a saint. Living holy is not something beyond you. God has made you in such a way that you can choose right. You can repent and believe the gospel. You can experience his grace.

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I owed a debt I could not pay, He paid a debt He did not owe. Is this as far as salvation goes? Is there not further benefit to our salvation than a payment? A ransom? Or did God adopt us and paid so we could be something more?

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We are told that God so loved the world that he gave Jesus to die for us, but how is that love? Is it not because we owe a debt that we cannot pay? This thought is the core feature of the vicarious salvation message that arises in medieval times.

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The earliest Christians recognized that salvation came to us through the Church as custodians of the gospel message. A message that formed around the temple sacrificial system and the concept of redemption of slaves in 1st century Israel.

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The gospel message is not complete without it being the power of God for salvation. We must find ourselves in His family, part of His Church, because the Church, as the kingdom of God on earth, is the means through which we come to know salvation.

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The kingdom of God is present in you and me. It is a unique dynamic that can be defined in religion but is not merely a do and don't thing. It is about family and relating beyond just you and God.

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To be salt and light is all we are called to be. We must preserve our fellow man and be a good example as a light to show them a righteous living. These are the things we are called to do.

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The message about the kingdom begins with John the Baptist. He was the one who began to promote the core gospel message about repentance and the kingdom in the way that Jesus would later preach it. As we look at how John preached and taught we can see how Jesus did come to establish a kingdom, a Church, through his ministry.

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Hope. At the center of the teaching about the kingdom of God or the gospel is a message about hope. The what this is all about reality.

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