Salvation

We had  shortened class, so we will continue discussing "salvation" for a second week!

In the New Testament, the verb sozo, translated  "to save," can mean:
--to deliver
--to rescue
--to keep from perishing
--to make well
   to heal
   to restore

There were several "Jesus texts" introduced for our study and reflection:
 (1)  Matthew 1:21--"For he (Jesus) will save his people from their sins."
        If sin is a manifestation of  distance--from God, from one another, from
        the image of God in ourselves--then Jesus comes to deliver us from these
        debilitating distances.

(2)  Matthew 9:21;Mark 5:28; Luke 9:48--"If only I touch his garment, I will
       be made well." (A translation of sozo)

(3)  Mark 8:35 --"For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who
       lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it."

(4)  John 3;17-- " Indeed,God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world,
       but in order that the world might be saved through him"