To start of this blog, I thought a perfect fit would be to post a short tid-bit on Salvation. My mother received her lesson for children's church the other day. We both found it odd, the outlook on the passage it had especially in regards to this being formatted for children. This lesson looked at the parable in Scripture where a man hire's people for a job at the beginning of the day, he continues to do this at different points in the day, the last of which are hired just an hour before the work day is done. The man then begins to pay his workers. He starts with those who began at the end of the day. The people whom the man hired that morning saw him paying the latecomer's, they thought they would be payed more because they worked all day. When it came time for these people to be payed, they received the same payment as all the others before them. This reflects on our Salvation. The lesson focused on how we all will have equal rewards in heaven, no matter how long we have been saved and how much we did on earth. My problem with this is, for starters it makes it seem as if we are earning our Salvation. This cannot be done. We in no way can earn our Salvation, if is a gift freely given for those who truly believe in and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. My second problem is that, it is just not true. A person who has been saved for 50 years and lived a Godly life-style will have rewards in heaven that God has specifically accounted for him. A new Christian of less than a year, will not have the same amount or even type of rewards in heaven. This isn't speaking to the fact you are accepted into heaven or not, just the rewards your will have. I believe the main thing this lesson needs to discuss is that as Christians we are not to keep track of the good we and gloat about the rewards we may have in heaven, for the gift is being in heaven with Jesus Christ for all eternity.
This was my first and only off the cuff post. It was just to get thing started. All others will be thought out and well worth your while.
In His Name,
David Mann
