Salvation is grace received as forgiveness, liberation, healing, communion and restored vocation.

The Priesthood affirms salvation by grace. Ephesians 2:8–10 holds together gift and vocation: salvation is not earned, yet those saved are created in Christ Jesus for good works. Grace therefore excludes self-salvation without producing passivity.

More than acquittal

Scripture speaks of salvation with many images: forgiveness, reconciliation, adoption, liberation, healing, new birth, new creation and participation in Christ. Restoration Theology refuses to compress all of these into a single legal metaphor. Guilt matters, but so do corruption, mortality, alienation, disordered desire and broken communion.

Grace restores capacity

Salvation restores a person to relationship with God and opens the life of transformation. The renewed mind, sanctified desire, sacramental communion, prayer, repentance and service belong to the ongoing healing of the person.

Saved into vocation

Second Corinthians 5 moves from reconciliation received to the ministry of reconciliation entrusted. This is the logic behind the phrase Restored to Restore. The beneficiary of grace becomes a servant of grace.

Grace does not make restitution unnecessary. Grace makes truthful responsibility possible without turning repair into payment for forgiveness.