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   %NATURE RELATIONAL SALVATION CHANGE GIFT ACHIEVE+971014   
               %ACHIEVE DONE FOR STATUS RIGHT 971014      
                                                                                                                               
     Salvation   is   relational  and  has  to   do   with                                                              
reconciliation,  liberation, healing, conflict resolution,                                              
peacemaking and increasing understanding.                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     Salvation is not:                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Something achieved  by  an individual.                                                                                
     2.  Something purchased by  an individual.                                                                                
     3.  Something owned     by  an individual.                   
     4.  Something given     to  an individual.                                                                                
     5.  Something done      for an individual.                                                                                
     6.  Something done      to  an individual.                                                                                
     7.  Something forced  upon  an individual.                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     Salvation  has  to do with the processes of  on-going              
relationships involving a member of a healthy community in                                                              
open and honest dialogue.                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Salvation  has  to do with the enjoyment of open  and                                                                     
honest dialogue made possible by the  freedom to be safely                                                                  
vulnerable within  intimate  relationships in a supportive                     
community.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     People  who  are  afraid to be  open  and  honest  in                                                                  
dialogue for any reason --- cannot enjoy salvation  within               
intimate  relationships.   Salvation cannot be forced upon                     
anybody.               
                                                                                                                               
     Salvation  is not about conformity of anybody to  any            
set   of  expectations  ---   for  conformity  of   unique            
individuals   entails  coercion  and  various   forms   of                                                                     
alienation --- and so entails alienation.                                        
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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