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RE-POST: SALVATION ARMY – What happened to you? By David Woodbury This is a re-post of a previous article with some additional text pertinent to the global pandemic. In a few months I will celebrate my 80 th   birthday and I guess, like many before me, it has become a time of reflection, review and evaluation. The world of my boyhood is a vastly different world in which I exist today. For the first 25-30 years of my life there were not great cultural changes.    On any given Friday night or Saturday if you walked down the main street of most suburbs you would probably have to step off the footpath to get around the crowds gathered at the local pub. They were, in a sense, a place of community gathering and interaction, mainly for males. RSL clubs overflowed with patrons and membership of a service club like Lions or Rotary were prized relationship only available to those who could be sponsored.    Suburban movie theatres drew crowds every weekend and the drive-in movi

THE CONDITIONS FOR SALVATION Romans 10:1-13 By David Woodbury In the deepest recesses of his heart, Paul yearns for his fellow Jews to come to the place of understanding that salvation and being put right with God is a matter purely of faith. He acknowledges that they have a zeal for God which is misdirected by trying to gain righteousness before God by their own merit and achievement. They felt that they could get right with God by their own efforts; that they could earn a right standing and accumulate enough credits with God, and because of that God owed them salvation. 1Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. 2 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. 3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. 4 For Christ has already accomp