Just some things i found interesting from reading these two books by Brian McLaren, Generous Orthodoxy and Adventures in Missing the Point (with Tony Campolo).
'The phrase accept Christ as your personal saviour is not in the Bible. Even personal saviour is absent from the pages of the Bible. In fact, the Bible seems to make the focus of salvation on us as a people, not on me as an individual'. (Missing the Point, p.19.)
In the Bible, being forgiven is the starting line not finishing line of salvation (ibid)
Nowhere in the Bible is the term 'sinners prayer'. Only in the last 150 years have Alter calls or invitations for salvation been done, likewise with raising of hands or walking done aisles (ibid, p.20)
The phrase, 'The Word of God' when used in the Bible never refers to the Bible, as it hadn't been compiled yet. (Generous Orthodoxy, p.181).
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