GENUINE INVASIONS

Stephen Freeman, Orthodox priest and author wrote:

“The great advantage to thinking about God in legal terms, is that nothing has to change. If what happens between us and God is entirely external, a matter of arranging things such as the avoidance of eternal punishment or the enjoyment of eternal reward, then the world can go on as it is. In the legal model that dominates contemporary Christian thought, the secular world of things becomes nothing more than an arena, the stage on which we act out our moral and psychological dilemmas, waiting only for our final grades to be issued when we die. This is to say that if “accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior” only brings about a change in my eternal disposition, then it is largely meaningless in this world. Everything Christians do in this world would be but tokens of eternity.”

The Salvation Gospel has the tendency to not improve, change or think and act differently until we bring our whole self to get saved and our whole self (not our religious self) to serve in the Kingdom of God.

Freeman continues: “The miracles of Christ are more than moral lessons – they are genuine invasions of this world by the Kingdom of God, the in-breaking of heaven to earth. It is because He loved us that He sent His Son into the world – that we might be transformed.”

“Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
“Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” Jesus