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What Are We Saved from—and What Are We Saved To?
Saved from God’s Wrath
When we call people to put their faith in Christ, we need to talk about what they’re saved from. It is very tempting to suggest that Jesus is here to save us from the sad, purposeless lives that we feel, or maybe save us from a lack of meaning in our lives. But the Bible is very clear that we’re not saved from purposelessness. We’re not saved from meaninglessness. We’re saved from God’s wrath.
Conversion
Michael Lawrence
This book explains the relationship between what we believe about how people are saved and our approach to sharing the gospel in the context of the local church.
The reality is that all of us are sinners and therefore deserve God’s judgment. We don’t need to be saved from ourselves. We don’t need to be saved from the lack of things in our lives. We need to be saved from God and the judgment that we deserve from him. And this is what Jesus came to do. He took God’s wrath for us on the cross. We have been saved from God’s wrath.
But we’re not just saved to then go on our merry way and do whatever we want. No, we are actually saved to follow Jesus. We’re saved to serve and love God with all of our lives, which means we’re actually saved to holiness. What it means to give our lives to God and what it means to say, Lord, I don’t belong to myself anymore; I belong to you, is to allow him to set the terms for my life. And that means a life of holy and sacrificial love.
We are saved from God’s wrath, and we are saved to God’s plan for our lives, which is a plan for holiness.
Michael Lawrence is the author of Conversion: How God Creates a People.
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