Most of us understand religion like going to university. You join the religion, you can now wear the T-shirt. But salvation is not assured.
Graduation day – but Christians are already living a life of service in assurance they’s passed, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Vasily Koloda/Unsplash.
You have to do years of study, many tasks, and it is only at your final exams that you find out whether you graduate successfully or are cast into the pile of students who never made it.
Christianity is totally different. At the point of joining Christianity you have passed, you get your certificate, you graduate – not because you pass the exam, but because someone else has sat it for you.
Christianity then becomes a life of celebratory service to the One who passed your test. Not a life of fearful tasks, hoping you have earned enough credit to pass!
The only problem is – even many Christians live the university model, because the second, grace, is so hard to fathom.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
