The race that I call my senior year of college is now underway. The finish line for me is just 9 short months away. On Monday night, as I was getting my room settled for the semester, I looked over my schedule of classes with a confidence that comes in having done this process for the last 3 years. I was ready for the year, excited about my new apartment, and ready to breeze through my classes. Well it only took me about 15 minutes into my Contemporary Apologetics class to come back down to earth. One question that the professor proposed for the class discussion was "what does one need to know to be saved?". After a half an hour of describing and re-describing the ABC's of Christianity (Accept, Believe, Confess), the question that I found most interesting and unsettling for me to think about was "what did people before Christ need to know to be saved?" This is an entirely different question than what one needs to "do" to be saved, but intellectually what do they really need to "know" to be saved?
So this is where I write to you from tonight, at my desk with a question and three blank pages in front of me to wrestle with my answer. Well, I guess I should get back to my paper...
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