September 14, 2014: I Mean Everyone – Landon Lynch

When it comes to Lydia and the jailer there is something peculiar going on. In both instances, one person believes, and as a result the “whole household” is saved. How can this be? Isn’t conversion an individual decision? This raises significant questions about what salvation is, and how believing in Jesus is so central to that.

So often we think in terms of mental ascent when it comes to salvation and Jesus. Which therefore puts us into the place of determining how we think about salvation. But belief was a bigger reality, and a commitment. We need to understand what it meant to live in a household, to believer in Jesus and what it meant to be “saved.”