Our readings in this series are from the book, Such a Great Salvation. Here is a brief excerpt from page 9:
“[O]ur salvation is great—so great that, as the Psalmist explained, ‘My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day, for I do not know their limits.’ So deep, so vast, so profound, so all-encompassing, so all-transforming and all-renewing, so powerful, so glorious and joyous and fruitful and inspiring and world-uprighting is our great salvation, that we can never get to the bottom of its profundity, scale the heights of its grandeur, comprehend the scope of its greatness, or exhaust the vastness of its power.
“Our salvation is greater than we know. Or ever will know. It is certainly greater than those episodic fits of bliss we experience in worship, or that sense of ‘I’m OK’ we derive from a few minutes in prayer. It is greater than the feel-good experience of Jesus proffered in many churches, hyped in much contemporary praise music, and testified to by countless breathless Christians, who Monday through Saturday don’t give much thought to the call to holiness, and are quite content to allow their neighbors their own opinion, however erroneous, of the faith of Jesus Christ.
“Ours is a great salvation, and as great as it has been for you or to you, as great as has been your experience of being in Jesus Christ, I think it’s not saying too much to insist that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
C. S. Lewis wrote that even as Christians, we are never not reading. We’re always reading something. Is what you’re reading helping you to grow out to the fullness of your great salvation? Our little book can help. You can order a copy of Such a Great Salvation, either in book form or as a free PDF, by going to The Ailbe Bookstore. And if you have not yet signed up to receive Read Moore on your desktop every Monday through Friday, then go to the home page of our website, www.ailbe.org, and scroll to bottom to subscribe or to update your existing subscriptions. Get some friend to sign up with and start a reading group together. For The Fellowship of Ailbe, this is T. M. Moore.
