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Salvation is NOT about you. Salvation is a spare tire for the trip to God.

Main stream Christianity thinks that God is in the business of saving people, that is, when they aren't usurping that task.

The number one activity taught in most churches is evangelism. It's all about witnessing and leading someone to the Lord.

That puts the Christian Walk squarely in the hands of the Believers. In other words, they have made it God's agenda.

Sure, there are a good many verses in the Bible that can be used to confirm this view. One of the main ones says that God isn't willing that anyone be lost. Another says to go out and make disciples of everyone.

And what higher calling can one have than bringing someone to God? What honor can be greater than showing God to an unbeliever so as to bring them into the fold? Well, I must admit that if that was what God wanted, those statements would be true.

But we have to start on God's side, not ours. It's not about what we are doing or figure we should be doing. It's about what God is doing. And believe me, He's not in the business of saving people. If He was, then He's doing a very poor job of it. It looks to me like the devil is winning that one hands down.

I bet you can ask a thousand people what they think God's overall plan is and not two can tell you.

There was a lot going on here on earth and in the physical universe before Adam and Eve come on the scene. Jeremiah saw in a vision the earth where there were cities, but no man. No humans. Then he saw the earth be destroyed. And many scholars throughout the ages have concluded that between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there is a gap of time. After the creation of the heavens and the earth, something very bad happened and wiped out everything on earth and even trashed most of our solar system, they say. That makes Genesis 1:2 a second beginning of creation for the earth. God even tells Adam to RE-plenish the earth. Fill it up again.

So God had something going on here on earth before there was anyone to save. What was that? People were an afterthought. Actually, I like to call people the "Adam Backup Plan." God started out on a project, some giant hiccup happened and He instituted a backup plan that involved people.

And down through the five millennia, God has been working that plan to get back to His original project. That project didn't even mention human salvation, except in the Appendix marked "Backup Plan A". By the way, there is another Appendix, marked "Backup Plan B". < BR />
I've gone over this subject before. I just wanted to mention it again to push home the point that God is not trying to save people. And because of that, neither should we be trying to save people. In fact, Ephesians four tells us what we are supposed to be doing.; We are supposed to be edifying the Body.

Here's what it says:
Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Please notice that it says nothing about unbelievers. It only names the Body; that's the people who are already Believers. Evangelism is only "gifted" to a very few, not everyone in the pew. Our job is to show God to other Believers, to help them grow in Christ, as it says.

Stay out of those Internet chat rooms trying to tell the "heathen" about God. You personally will never lead someone to the Lord. That is the Holy Spirit's job. At least that's what Jesus says. "No one comes to me (that's God, too) except the Father draw him." Now, I'm sure you agree that God will not do this Himself, but will send the Holy Spirit to draw that person.

We can also conclude that the Spirit isn't going around tapping folks on the shoulder and they see God. How does the Spirit draw someone to God? By drawing that person to a place where God's Truth is available.

We better leave people alone and let the Holy Spirit do His job. Salvation is not about you, it's about what God is doing.

Find a way to get the truth of God out in the open where it will be available for the Holy Spirit to show someone.

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