Salvation is not merely individualistic. God is doing more than rescuing souls from destruction for blessing. Salvation is from hell for heaven (and the New Creation): the telos is a communal destiny.
God saves a people. And that people is not a mob but a polis, a city, an organised community. The people of God are citizens of an administration ordered by justice where there ought to be peace. They are bound together by a common love and common interest. They are members of a commonwealth, a household, an economy. This civilization will have its laws, customs, officers and outward forms which flow from its nature and are ordered towards its goals.
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