The first time I visited my future seminary, it wasn’t one of those weekends specially planned for prospective students. I went by myself to find out what the school was like and what they did on an average day. I ended up in a chapel service on a Friday afternoon that had… maybe a few more than two dozen folks in attendance in a sanctuary that was enormous. When the time for communion came, the pastor called the congregation forward to come up the steps and surround the communion table. Outside of, say, church camp, this casual invitation was unlike any communion I had ever been to. When I got up the steps of the chancel, I saw that the communion table was quite large – more like a great dinner table that could fit 12 plus people easily. The table was set and the guests had arrived. The pastor started speaking without notes about communion, about community. Then, he invited us to this meal of grace by asking: “how is Jesus saving you today?” Right away, people started answering: from depression, from loneliness, from addiction, from meaninglessness. In very brief statements, almost everyone who was there shared how they saw Jesus working and active in their lives – before their very eyes. I started to realize that I’d heard people ask, “have you been saved?” and the answer was meant to be, “yes, on exactly June 6, 1992.” It was something that happened in the past. And I’d heard people ask, “will you be saved?” And the answer was often, “yes, through faith in Jesus, I’m going to heaven one day.” Salvation was something we experience in the future. But, somehow, I had never heard anyone ask, “how are you being saved right now?”