Why do we Christians keep talking about “getting people saved”? What’s all the fuss about? Why can’t we leave well enough alone? People who don’t have a “relationship with Jesus” may be happy enough and don’t appreciate us telling them they need a savior.
So why do we keep on? Why do we insist that salvation is needed? Why won’t we stop?
Here’s why:
“Man needs salvation not because he is imprisoned in a body but because he willfully chooses his own way rather than God’s way. Man’s evil is not in his body; it is in his affections. He loves the wrong things. This affliction is so deep, so basic to man’s life on earth, that only a special Savior can free him from himself. That is why Christianity insists that Ghandhi and all who agree with him are wrong. Man does not need a teacher. He needs a Savior” (Bruce Shelley).
“The danger for Christianity at present is that it could become secularized, worldly, reduced to a kind of socialist humanism. This is not what the world needs; and, if Christians were reduced to offering the world only this humanism, they would soon be set aside and rightly so, since there have always been socialists, teachers of morality, and organizers of society: they have rendered service, but they have never saved anyone.
“The world today does not need greater social organization but a Savior: man today needs someone who will answer the fundamental problems of his existence, which no social structure has ever been able to answer” (Jean Danielou).
I need a Savior. You need a Savior.
That Savior is Jesus!
“Our problem is not an inadequate education. It is a rebellious heart.” – Ravi Z.