Monday Night Moments

Bible Study: Christian Questions of Identity

This semester's Bible Study continues to be meaningful and thought provoking as we delve into the scriptures and consider issues of identity. Last night, we read Psalm 40 and discussed a concept that gets thrown around in different ways. Those who speak Christianese in its various forms often throw around the word "salvation." People often mean different things when they use that word. So we asked the question: What is salvation? What do people say about it? What does it mean to us? How has it shaped who we are as individuals and as a community?

We discovered that there are many ways to understand salvation - lots of ways to think about how God has "saved" and is "saving" us.

What is salvation?

Here are some of the responses from people who attended Bible Study last night.

Salvation means. . .

- Deliverance from evil
- Restoration to usage or purpose
- To be made well
- A complete change of heart
- Deliverance from judgment
- Having essential needs for living met
- To live in the Kingdom of God
- To receive right standing with God
- To receive the Holy Spirit
- To live in submission to God
- To learn to trust
- Being made clean
- Forgivness
- Justification
- Grace
- To be delivered from sin
- To be made victorious in the face of defeat
- Being unburdened
- To be fully human with one another

We considered together, "How have we experienced salvation in our lives?" How has God been at work? How is God at work now?

How have you experienced salvation?

Our Softball Game!

Last night, we fought hard in our third softball game. Unfortunately, we didn't win this one, but we enjoyed our time together. Only one more game of the season! Play hard, Barcodes!

Here are a couple of fun pictures from last night.





Go BARCODES!