From Love to Effective Salvation

Love unites. It is the union of diversity. To be united with the eternal is to be eternal. To have eternal life we must be united with an eternal life-giving God. Does God love all? Yes, God is love. Do all love God? No, many are ignorant of or even hate (the idea of a) God. Therefore not all are in a love relationship with God. So not all are united to God. Many are seperated from eternity.

But God sent Jesus to reconcile and unite ALL to God. Has Jesus failed? No, but reconcilliation requires something from both parties. Jesus achieved and expressed God’s offer, but not all have seen this expression or heard of God’s love for them. Thus they cannot love God in return and remain untouched by the power of the Gospel to unite them to God.

Will they be lost if we do not preach to them? Does an all-powerful God have no other way of reaching the lost than through an imperfect and ineffective body of believers? Does their salvation lie solely our hands? Surely not. What arrogance. What lack of peace.

Could God have a better way than simply our preaching to express love for the world? Surely God could implant the idea in their hearts and minds and convict them in an instant. God has chosen an ineffective method of communicating love.

If God truly loves all people and desires to see them saved by being united to Himself then He must have an alternative way for them to discover His love. He must do everything He can. It seems arbitrary to insist people be preached at in this life and converted. I must conclude that God can reach more of the lost, if not in this life then outside of this life.