A small group of us meet at what is called The Well at church every Wednesday for a hour to discuss a topic and share communion. The other evening it was ‘Salvation’. I had suggested the topic after serving communion at the church the previous Sunday. As people came forward to dip their bread into the cup, I said, “The Cup of Salvation.” That’s just what came out of me and I thought nothing more about it until I was offered, “The cup of blessing.”
Why had I chosen to say salvation? Why hadn’t I said blessing, which is the usual term used in my church? As I explained to my little group at The Well, I always feel blessed, but I am continually searching for salvation. Not a one time salvation that is often aligned with evangelical Christian theology, but the little salvations that I obtain when I am right with God. I have to keep working for them, however, for it is very clear to me I that I can’t obtain salvation by myself. Try as I might to ‘be perfect as God is perfect’, I know and have come to believe that I need God’s saving grace to give me those moments.
Why had I chosen to say salvation? Why hadn’t I said blessing, which is the usual term used in my church? As I explained to my little group at The Well, I always feel blessed, but I am continually searching for salvation. Not a one time salvation that is often aligned with evangelical Christian theology, but the little salvations that I obtain when I am right with God. I have to keep working for them, however, for it is very clear to me I that I can’t obtain salvation by myself. Try as I might to ‘be perfect as God is perfect’, I know and have come to believe that I need God’s saving grace to give me those moments.
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