let us pray:

❖ Verse:
❖ ‘Our help is in the name of the Lord’
❖ Response:
❖ ‘Who made heaven and earth.’
A. Salvation and
History
 Salvation?
• freedom
• liberation
• emancipation
 History?

• record of past
events
• connection?
• salvation and history
• experience
• history as
salvation
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big history
16 bad things decreasing
16 bad things decreasing
16 bad things decreasing
16 good things increasing
16 good things increasing
16 good things increasing
 Salvation = History

• global cooperation
• collective action
• complex interdependencies
 History = Salvation
• Humans:
• community
• meets the pressing needs of existence
together
• build a sheltering and protective form of
existence
• escape the threatening powers of the cosmos
 Gen. Douglas McArthur

• ‘It is my earnest hope and indeed the

hope of all humankind that from this
solemn occasion a better world shall
emerge out of the blood and courage
of the past.’
our history
 History = Salvation
• Individual:
• alone
• member of a race, a nation, a
culture
• safety, freedom, life that are
salvation!
My History
 Am I saved?

Am I a saving agent?
the subway the subway superman
samaritan the subway hero
 Subway incident
• On January 2, 2007, Autrey was waiting for a train at the
subway station in Manhattan with his two young daughters.

• At around 12:45 p.m., he and two women noticed a young man,

Cameron Hollopeter, having a seizure. Autrey borrowed a pen
and used it to keep Hollopeter's jaw open.

• Following the seizure, Hollopeter stumbled from the platform,

falling onto the tracks.

• As Hollopeter lay on the tracks, Autrey saw the lights of an

oncoming train. As one of the women held Autrey's daughters
back away from the edge of the platform, Autrey dove onto
the tracks.
 Subway incident
• He thought he would be able to take Hollopeter off
the tracks but he realized there was not enough time
to drag Hollopeter away.

• Instead, he protected Hollopeter by throwing himself

over Hollopeter's body in a drainage trench between
the tracks, where he held him down.

• Though the operator of the train applied the brakes,

all but two cars still passed over them, close enough
to leave grease on his caps.
 Classic line:

• ‘I did what anyone

could do and what
everyone ought to
do'
 Media attention
• He received $5,000 cash and $5,000 in scholarships for
his daughters from Jerry Sherlock, the president of the
New York Film Academy

• Autrey also received $10,000 from Donald Trump.

• Invited to be a guest by David Letterman, Charlie Rose and

Ellen DeGeneres

• Autrey, who had been wearing a periwinkle blue beanie

with a Playboy Bunny logo, received a lifetime subscription
to Playboy, a new beanie, and additional Playboy
merchandise :)
 saving agents
• touch
• console
• heal
 ‘save me’
• need not only mean “get me out of
this situation’

• it may mean “HELP ME COPE WITH

THIS SITUATION SO THAT I AM NOT
DESTROYED BY IT.”
 • ‘saved by the bell’

• is your bf or gf an experience
of salvation?
immediate experience of salvation

Salvation comes through History