Yes, Virginia, there really is a plan of salvation. It is a plan designed and executed by God to save humanity from destruction. It is not a phrase that was created by someone to be thrown about by various Christians like so many other words and phrases. It is an actual plan. The Christian community has its own language that many outsiders, and a lot of Christians themselves, do not fully understand. We throw words and phrases into our conversations without really giving much thought to what they truly mean. Well, the phrase “the plan of salvation” falls into this category. It is something most all Christians have said at least once and yet, very few have actually sat down and fully thought out what that phrase really means. God indeed had a plan – a real, actual plan for saving us. It was a plan that was thousands of years in the making and ultimately, flawlessly implemented by Christ.
There are a lot of things within the Christian community that many of us have never really thought about. Why do we do certain things? Most of these things I have found to be burdensome and that does not align with what Jesus promised. He said that He came not only to give us life but, to give us an abundant life. He was talking about freedom. That is a concept that has been lost among Christians. Oh, we say it. We quote the verse, but deep down we do not believe it. Otherwise, we would not do some of the things we do. I want to examine some of those things. Bring them to light. I want to examine them with you and hopefully, for some of you, help bring a little more freedom to this abundant life God has given us.
