This question, “Are you saved?” is a common one many of us encounter when facing Christians with a Protestant background. There’s a relatively brief three-part answer …
(the saint? Yes, it’s Saint Zlata! I hope the artist, Ralitza Ilieva, doesn’t mind my showing the icon here and linking to her site. I tried contacting her twice via email, but the mail bounced back. Anyway, lovely icon, isn’t it?)
July 23, 2007 at
Holy Saint Zlata, pray to God for us. What a beautiful icon, and a wonderful hagiography.
August 7, 2007 at
I once took my 2 oldest children to our local homeschool group’s Christmas Party. I pushed the baby around town in the stroller for a while and came back to the party. I was livid to find out that my children had been “put in a different room with someone to pray with them” because, when asked if they were saved, they didn’t have the proper response. I am a confessional Lutheran and we just don’t use that language. We were saved at baptism.
Good post!
December 30, 2007 at
A truly modern version of icon painting considering the plastic table and chairs on the background…
December 31, 2007 at
LOL. YOu know, I hadn’t even absorbed that. I guess you could say the saints are always with us!