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Getting Saved
Nov. 5th, 2009 09:25 pmA work colleague from another office was working from our office today while his was being carpeted. The fact that I was asked by a visiting school group from Gunnedah if I was Catholic got us chatting about theology. He's a pretty conservative baptist with whom I get on just fine despite the fact that we don't agree on a number of things.
He was telling me about his family and their religious background. They all live in the same town and all go to the same church. The concept of "getting saved" is a big one for them. That's an expression I've heard plenty of times from evangelical types, but I've never been sure of what they meant. As best as I can tell it is a dramatic conversion experience, and it seems like it's always referred to exclusively as a past event. That's never resonated with me. It seems to be that redemption and reconciliation is something that I experience again and again. The fact that you are travelling along the path doesn't mean you won't ever need saving again.
The men's showers at the gym are being renovated, so they are out of order for two weeks. They are offering use of the showers in the women's only section of the gym (which would seem to breach the whole "women only" idea) but frankly I'm not keen on that. Yesterday the gym was less crowded than it normally is which was a bonus. Today I went to the other gym in Civic which was much more crowded. Too crowded, in fact, for me to be able to do my normal workout.
TW: 100 clean and press, 20 minutes on the treadmill - slower pace, steep hills, and carrying a 4kg medicine ball (really gets the core)
He was telling me about his family and their religious background. They all live in the same town and all go to the same church. The concept of "getting saved" is a big one for them. That's an expression I've heard plenty of times from evangelical types, but I've never been sure of what they meant. As best as I can tell it is a dramatic conversion experience, and it seems like it's always referred to exclusively as a past event. That's never resonated with me. It seems to be that redemption and reconciliation is something that I experience again and again. The fact that you are travelling along the path doesn't mean you won't ever need saving again.
The men's showers at the gym are being renovated, so they are out of order for two weeks. They are offering use of the showers in the women's only section of the gym (which would seem to breach the whole "women only" idea) but frankly I'm not keen on that. Yesterday the gym was less crowded than it normally is which was a bonus. Today I went to the other gym in Civic which was much more crowded. Too crowded, in fact, for me to be able to do my normal workout.
TW: 100 clean and press, 20 minutes on the treadmill - slower pace, steep hills, and carrying a 4kg medicine ball (really gets the core)
