{"id":10179,"date":"2008-12-15T19:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_shepherd_salvation_is_not_about_who_is_in_and_who_is_out\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T19:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T19:01:48","slug":"john_shepherd_salvation_is_not_about_who_is_in_and_who_is_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10179","title":{"rendered":"John Shepherd: Salvation is not about who is in and who is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third, salvation is not about who is in or who is out \u201d\u201d who are sheep or who are goats.<\/p>\n<p>Can we really imagine the God of all creation, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, being fussed by the status of everyone\u2019s individual belief? Salvation is concerned with the transformation of life. All life. Barriers to the flourishing of all human beings are to be overcome, whatever stage people are at in the awareness of this life-giving dynamic. What matters is that we have all been freed to be all there is in us to be. Otherwise Christ has died in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Are we saved? This is a poor question to ask. A better question is \u201cAre we committed to the process of human flourishing?\u201d\u009d If yes, then we are saved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article5332119.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third, salvation is not about who is in or who is out \u201d\u201d who are sheep or who are goats. Can we really imagine the God of all creation, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, being fussed by the status<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10179\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,395,74,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}