What We Need Salvation From

Contemporary culture seems to be grounded today in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety.  We are a lot like the disciples who were hiding in a room after the crucifixion.  They were afraid that they would be charged with sedition and crucified like Jesus.

When they experience the risen Christ, they are not delivered or protected from the source of their fear.  In fact, they are commissioned to go into the Roman world to proclaim the gospel.  The disciples thought they needed to be saved from the world.  What Christ revealed is that the source of their fear was illusory.

One of the greatest errors that can be made by the Church today is to accept as true what human culture tells us truly matters, and to then be afraid that these things will be taken away.  Being God's people does not mean that we will be protected and delivered from the world.  It means that like the disciples in that room, we will realize that what the world tells us we should fear doesn't matter.  And only by seeing ourselves and the world for what it is can we truly go into the world to bring Christ's news of salvation.