This evening I had the opportunity to participate in a gathering (which I will not detail here, draw your own conclusions about that.)  During the course of this event, which was of a group of Christian protestant men, one of them talked about how he had grown over the last fwe months.  He said, it’s one thing to “get saved” – to have the experience of coming to Christ.  It’s another thing in your everyday life to be “being saved” as the Lord develops us, refines us, and prepares us for eternity with him.  As he said, “I’ve been being saved a lot this summer.”

I felt like jumping up and inviting him to swim the Tiber!  Clearly, this is a guy who has a pretty Catholic view of salvation, not overly fixated on a single experience of salvation as so much of Protestantism (particularly fundamentalism) is, but recognizes that every day is indeed a process of salvation that continues on for one’s entire life.   Naturally, as I know my audience, I try and avoid the word “saved” because it makes it sound like I am pushing an assurance of salvation position.  But this person’s statement was timely and intelligent.  I wonder if he knows how Catholic it is?