The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Sep 21, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
Salvation is most often associated with what we must do (or believe) to go to heaven. As a result, most Christian theologies of salvation focus on what happens after we die. However, if we assume that…
Now, for the last few weeks, we have discussed how deconstruction is the inevitable process, I believe, of our growth towards God.
Jesus speaks of what we refer to as deconstruction when he is inviting us or saying, reminding us that, um, we cannot put new wine into old wineskins, right? There's a way in which there must be an emptying for something to be refilled.
Now, contrary to what some of us perhaps were taught, deconstruction is faith seeking understanding.
It is a process of unlearning to learn anew, to add to the knowledge that we already have, of asking ourselves, "What have we been taught to believe that seems inconsistent with our experience of God, but seems inconsistent with the God of love?" Now, last week, we deconstructed what it means to be born again, and, and this week, we are examining another term that carries a lot of theological baggage: salvation.
Now, salvation is most often associated with what we must do or believe to go to heaven, right? Now, as a result, most Christian theologies of salvation focus on what happens after we die.
What Jesus speaks about frequently and passionately is how we can transform the world that...
Or how he could transform and how his community could transform the world that they lived in, the world, in a sense, that we live in, the kingdom of God.
What's the relationship between the kingdom of God and salvation? What it means for the way we might want to rethink what salvation or get a fuller picture, I might say, of what salvation is.
But before we do that, I wanna invite you to, um, stand and, um, greet one another.
So invite you to please introduce yourself to someone perhaps you haven't met, get coffee, pastries, that kind of stuff, uh, but also continue to build up the relationship so we can become more than Sunday friends.
So, um, the first conversation question should be coming up on the screen here in a moment.
Uh, and we have a little bit of time to sit with this one 'cause I think it's, uh, this one definitely is gonna bring up, uh, some interesting conversations, I hope.
right?So what role has the afterlife kind of played in developing of your theology, essentially is this question.
So let's spend, and we have seven minutes actually listed, uh, for our time today on this question, and then we'll move into announcements.
Now, for the last few weeks, we have discussed how deconstruction is the inevitable process, I believe, of our growth towards God.
Jesus speaks of what we refer to as deconstruction when he is inviting us or saying, reminding us that, um, we cannot put new wine into old wineskins, right? There's a way in which there must be an emptying for something to be refilled.
Now, contrary to what some of us perhaps were taught, deconstruction is faith seeking understanding.
It is a process of unlearning to learn anew, to add to the knowledge that we already have, of asking ourselves, "What have we been taught to believe that seems inconsistent with our experience of God, but seems inconsistent with the God of love?" Now, last week, we deconstructed what it means to be born again, and, and this week, we are examining another term that carries a lot of theological baggage: salvation.
Now, salvation is most often associated with what we must do or believe to go to heaven, right? Now, as a result, most Christian theologies of salvation focus on what happens after we die.
What Jesus speaks about frequently and passionately is how we can transform the world that...
Or how he could transform and how his community could transform the world that they lived in, the world, in a sense, that we live in, the kingdom of God.
What's the relationship between the kingdom of God and salvation? What it means for the way we might want to rethink what salvation or get a fuller picture, I might say, of what salvation is.
But before we do that, I wanna invite you to, um, stand and, um, greet one another.
So invite you to please introduce yourself to someone perhaps you haven't met, get coffee, pastries, that kind of stuff, uh, but also continue to build up the relationship so we can become more than Sunday friends.
So, um, the first conversation question should be coming up on the screen here in a moment.
Uh, and we have a little bit of time to sit with this one 'cause I think it's, uh, this one definitely is gonna bring up, uh, some interesting conversations, I hope.
right?So what role has the afterlife kind of played in developing of your theology, essentially is this question.
So let's spend, and we have seven minutes actually listed, uh, for our time today on this question, and then we'll move into announcements.
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