The Problem of Salvationism

 

The problem of salvationism, the "evangelical" emphasis on being saved, is that it answers the question "Where does God fit into my life ?"

It's a legitimate question that everyone should ask himself.

But it's not the ultimate question: and indeed comes at that question from the wrong end, our limited and purely personal end.  "Life" is, after all. God's essence...and ours only by His gift..

The ultimate question must be where I fit into God's Life.

To my understanding, Jesus called that all-encompassing Life of  I AM "The Kingdom of God."  How could the Fact He IS be anything less than His absolute Rule of all that originates in Him ?

The ultimate question for each of us, where we fit into the LIFE of God, comes down to Jesus' command that we "seek first" not our own salvation, but the Kingdom of God.