“What must I do to be saved?”
A dear friend of mine asked me: If someone were to come to you and ask, “What must I do to be saved?”, what would you tell them today [since you believe in Ultimate Redemption]? For the simple conversations with people who [just] want to know Christ, and want to consciously “come to Christ,” is there anything you’d say to them that echoes what you used to say as an Evangelical, minus the condemning “turn or burn” side? Or is it entirely, utterly different now? I have these conversations once in a while with people, but I’ve never known what those conversations would be like [from an Ultimate Redemption perspective]. I thanked my friend and said I’d have to get back to him. Since I’d never thought about this before with my current worldview, I wasn’t really certain how to answer. But, as the Spirit so often does for me with most things like this, a passage came to my mind. In Luke 10, the same question was brought to Jesus — Luke 10:25-28 (NTE; adapted): [1] A lawyer got up and put Jes