Salvation

A Word Study

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“Everybody needs, everybody needs

Everybody needs saving

Everybody breaks, everybody bleeds

You don't have to be ashamed

Call on Jesus

Say His name

Just receive Him in your heart

And you will be saved

And God has raised Him from the grave

Just believe it in your heart and you will be saved”

-“You Will Be Saved” by ELEVATION RHYTHM

John Mark Comer, in his book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (which I read and quote often), says this: “The Greek word that we translate ‘salvation’ is soteria; it’s the same word we translate ‘healing.’ When you’re reading the New Testament and you read that somebody was ‘healed’ by Jesus and then you read somebody else was ‘saved’ by Jesus, you’re reading the same Greek word. Salvation is healing. Even the etymology of our English word salvation comes from the Latin salve. As in, an ointment you put on a burn or a wound.”

I remember reading this and thinking, “Salvation is healing. Like whole-person…