Luke Johnson (prof. emory univ.) speaks a lot about the church as a whole body approaching everything from the way it studies the bible to salvation. once, in class, and i believe it is mentioned in his book about the creed, he spoke about this american appraoch to individualistic salvation; i.e. ‘are you saved?’ mentality. he said he usually responds with “no he is not saved, but he is a part of the body of believers who are —- (memory is loose here but it ends with either) being saved or called into salvation.” i’ll try to look it up later.

peace,

rev slick