Christians should be talking less about punishment and more about flourishing. If you’ve hung around churches that talk about “getting saved,” you and I share a common language. Have you been saved? is a familiar question to us. In those churches, the typical story of how we obtained salvation was this:  We were born with a sinful nature, doomed to suffer God’s wrath unless God saved us. Yes, God would save us…from God. And what’s more, the story claimed that we deserved God’s wrath for our sinfulness, but God made a transactional deal to save us. Jesus died a horrific … Continue reading Bomb | Balm | Bloom