{"id":2681,"date":"2007-03-06T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/the-sinners-prayer.html"},"modified":"2007-03-06T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T12:43:15","slug":"the-sinners-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/the-sinners-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sinner’s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did anyone hear the sound of a small bomb being dropped?<\/p>\n

Huh.<\/p>\n

Must have been my imagination.<\/p>\n

David Gushee, at Christianity Today:<\/a><\/p>\n

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I was getting ready to preach. As the worship leader was finishing the music set, he offered some unscripted theological reflections. He said something like: "The only thing required of us is to believe that Jesus’ blood saves us. Nothing more. It’s nothing but the blood of Jesus."<\/p>\n

In my Baptist context, we’ve heard these thoughts a thousand times. The problem was that I had in my pocket a message in which Jesus himself had a very different answer to the question of salvation.<\/p>\n

In reading through Luke, I had discovered that twice (10:25, 18:18) Jesus is asked, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More<\/a><\/p>\n

She wonders…how many more steps until Jesus’ answers to other questions might be brought into the equation as well..<\/p>\n

like…"How can a person grown old be born again?"<\/a><\/p>\n

like…"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a big, big picture…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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