Methodist Beliefs: Salvation

Our final week in our Methodist Beliefs series, we discuss salvation in Christ. Rev. Catherine Nance gives us a description of United Methodist's view of salvation.

[@terrygreer9699]

I so enjoy her teaching and preaching!

[@waynegebhardt5396]

Be careful, she's on the verge of heresy if not already there.

[@newcastlewest8397]

lovely church and lovely women 😍

[@Logiconfire]

A person is saved when God makes them alive in Christ Jesus. He does it through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

[@agente180]

That is ongoing and not done overnight.

[@Logiconfire]

@@agente180 It is done in a moment. If anyone is in Christ Jesus; the old has gone, the new has come! The Spirit then bears witness that you are a child of God. When it happens, you know it.

[@yestofuture.byethost5._om]

Salvation is instant. Sanctification is a process.

[@agente180]

exactly, the actual word for salvation that Jesus uses is in the present progressive

[@gregjones6316]

Jesus said you must be born again in accept his paymemt at calvary

[@JED-PH]

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John 15:26 When you believe in Jesus. John 3:16 The "HOLY SPIRIT"will testify that you are Save😁😍🙏

[@ethanlawter1794]

She’s so confused, it’s called Sanctification not a process! You don’t get saved by a Process! If any man be in Christ he IS.... not growing, not becoming, But IS a new creature

[@agente180]

The verb Jesus uses to refer to salvation is in the present progressive. Salvation may start with an encounter with Jesus but you must remain following Him to benefit from that salvation. All epistles from the apostles address believers that still struggled day by day with their past tendencies which still needed to be sanctified.

[@robcarr4397]

Sounds good but why would our present salvation (sanctification) be any more important that our past one (justification, being born again) or our future one (glorification)? Also, may I ask, do Methodists believe there's only one condition for justification--faith as Romans, Ephesians, and Galatians explain? Or more, such as turning from sin, asking for forgiveness, giving one's life to Christ, et cetera?

[@faithplusnothing]

Methodism idea of going on to perfection to justify your salvation? That puts your salvation on you, which is Biblically wrong.

[@jetdriver26]

Yes salvation is spoken of in 3 tenses, but sanctification is not something we "try to achieve". It's the work of the Holy Spirit, and it seems like so many liberal denominations, shes teaching works of the flesh.

[@agente180]

The Spirit won't try to sanctify you without your consent.

[@jetdriver26]

The Holy Spirit is God, and he needs our consent for nothing.

[@BungleZippie]

@@jetdriver26 God doesn't 'need' our consent. God wants our consent. That's a significant difference. Without any freedom at all, I think the implied implications are blasphemous.

[@bradleyscott9462]

If I am "being saved" what happens to me when I die?

[@ChristyCallahan]

Is that all you care about? I want to know what happens when you live!

[@reneewashington8010]

Salvation is an event NOT a process. We are seated in heavenly places the instant we believe and NOTHING we add to that moment is part of the foundation of BELIEVING in Jesus as outlinned in 1 Corinthians 15 vs 1-4. Btw asking Jesus into your heart is not biblical where is that anywhere in the Bible preferably the King James version?

[@agente180]

The verb Jesus uses to refer to salvation is in the present progressive. Salvation may start with an encounter with Jesus but you must remain following Him to benefit from that salvation. All epistles from the apostles address believers that still struggled day by day with their past tendencies which still needed to be sanctified.

[@mikyhtomit]

She didn’t mention sin or Jesus or the cross even once. What is this? No Bible verse no nothing! Just thoughts

[@yestofuture.byethost5._om]

..Jesus said: "it is finished". Salvation is not for us to keep. All sins are paid for by Jesus..past , present and future sins. We are saved not being saved. If you are a true believers all this while and you sin just before you passed away. Are you saying you go to hell? ...being saved.... Doom and gloom. That is not good news. No one can separate us from the love of Christ...nor angels nor present or future events..

[@chirho100]

I believe, the word of God teaches, if you are redeemed by the law, you must be perfect, this would be impossible for fallen man, and if you are redeemed by grace, this action is only done by God, because of His, mercy and love, and man can not achieve this gift(Grace) of salvation by his own works, If salvation is a gift, then gifts are not conditional, if I do bad and you take the gift away, then it never was a gift, you keep a gift no matter what, I believe the Methodist try to earn salvation, by a little bit of the law and a little bit of grace, it is clear in the word of God that this theology is not possible, you are ether redeemed by all Law or all by grace and can never be both the law or grace at the same time, or otherwise it has became works.

[@agente180]

Justification is only done by God but the verb Jesus uses to refer to salvation is in the present progressive. Salvation may start with an encounter with Jesus but you must remain following Him to benefit from that salvation. All epistles from the apostles address believers that still struggled day by day with their past tendencies which still needed to be sanctified.

[@ChristyCallahan]

Just read James and you’ll be fine.

[@keithclark1875]

If you are saved, you are perfect thought the blood of Christ. If you are being saved, as you say, then it's a works salvation. Which is not what the Bible teaches.

[@dougmays3205]

You want to re-think that comment? By its very definition, the term "being saved" means someone else--in this case, Someone else with a capital S, our Savior Jesus Christ--is acting in behalf of, to deliver and rescue, one who is perishing. She plainly said early on that we Methodists accept that tense of the verb "have been saved." We affirm that anyone who has confessed his or her sin and inability to save themselves from sin and who has sincerely asked, with repentance, for Christ's deliverance, has been saved. We also affirm that while we are living on this Earth and doing battle with evil and seeking to be a witness for Christ we are being saved. And when we die and leave Earth and the realm of time, when we go into eternity and into the place/realm/existence that Jesus has prepared for us, we will be saved.

[@keithclark1875]

I apologize. I have review the video and I did misunderstood. But, what's up with the capital "S"? Did I miss a capitalization somewhere? Thanks

[@dougmays3205]

Thanks for your open spirit. The capital S comes from my education in the public schools of Florida and Georgia in the Dark Ages called the 1960s and 1970s. We were taught in English classes (not "language arts") that any reference to God should be capitalized. Believe it or not, we used to even be assigned sentences that would talk about God, the Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit--even the Holy Trinity! It's hard to believe public educators could be that backward and benighted in that recent a chapter of American history, isn't it?

[@keithclark1875]

Okay, I thought I didn't something wrong. I do have to watch my grammar.

[@SSJCyan]

there are 3 stages of salvation, past present and future

[@waynegebhardt5396]

A a believer, that Jesus Christ died and rose to pay the price for your sins, you are saved. Now and forever. What she says about continual process is not biblical to your salvation. She is describing what most Christians refer to as sanctification. The process of becoming more like Christ in our lives. It has nothing to due with your salvation. It may be a sign of it but your works do nothing to gain you salvation.