The problem with most of Christian talk about salvation is that it is a question about "eternal destiny" - the "Where will you spend eternity?" question. Salvation is something for the here-and-now. It is for the world - the entire creation. Salvation affirms that the destiny of created reality is with God. The distinction between heaven and earth is not geographical. Spatial images function as metaphors and symbols for the disruption of sin - the ways in which we exclude God from our lives and society. To be "in Christ" is already to have that relationship restored. It is to be filled with the life of God. For individuals, therefore, salvation is something that we enjoy now and is supposed to transform life, living, choosing, acting and wrold-making here and now. Its purpose is to include us in God’s mission of transforming this world into the Kingdom of God (cf the petition in the Lord’s Prayer: "Your kingdom, your will be done on earth …" In one sense, the question of where we "go" after death is supremely uninteresting: if we share in the Life and purposes of God, we share in God’s future. Being saved is about the transforming of human life and living and incorporating us into God’s work through the same Spirit that filled Jesus.