Question of the day ??
Can you recount the moment when you were saved? Or did it just happen over time?
posted by Greg Hazelrig @ 7:55 AM
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4 Comments:
Mine was also gradual and I cannot give an exact date of my salvation. In fact, my whole Christian walk was very much similar to Wesley's account recorded on May 24, 1738 of his journal. Not the "strangely warmed" part, but the whole series of events in his life leading up to that.
Hi Greg...God's loving, awesome, gradual, prevenient grace has been at work on my behalf long before I was born, at birth and continues every second of every day...some moments I actually pay attention and realize a special closeness with God...some moments I can actually remember a time, place, event...others are just God-moments woven into the fabric of my daily living...I, too, can remember a defining moment in my faith while in high school...thanks for the question...have a day in which God is restoring you to the joy of his salvation...
Been happening for a while.
When I was five, at vacation Bible school, I responded to an altar call, prayed some variation of "the sinner's prayer" with an Eagle Scout, and really meant it.
Since then I've needed a fair ammount of renewal and "re-commitment." For me, that's good enough reason to question perseverance of the saints (and then reject it on further Biblical grounds). That said, as United Methodists, I think we need to be clear that while assurance of salvation might be progressive, we should expect that we might eventually find it and move on to the process of sanctification. It's hard to imagine "going on to perfection," having any real meaning if we don't know how to distinguish justification from sanctification.
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