Jesus didn’t come to tell people how to become Christians. He didn’t
even spend his time telling people how they could join the Church. Rather,
he came to show them how to be human. He encouraged people to follow him,
to become his disciples, to get re-connected to God and other people.
Salvation isn’t about having the right labels; it’s about becoming truly and
fully human. It’s about living the way God has created us to live, in
harmony with him, with each other and with the rest of creation. And it’s
not so much about what happens after you die, though that is one important
dimension of it; it’s about life right here and now. Put simply, Jesus
believed in just one story – ‘Us’, humankind, moving, both individually and
collectively, closer to or further away from the Kingdom of God and his promised
shalom.” Steve Chalke, The Lost Message of Jesus, pg 153, 154