Salvation involves forgiveness of sin and personal salvation. Yet it is much more expansive than this alone as many conservatives sometimes seem to imply. It includes: the renewal and restoration of the whole of creation; the tearing down of all structures and powers that hold people and creation itself in bondage; the re-conforming of our thinking, worldview and identity to mind of Christ in all areas of life; the overturning of all injustices and the alleviation of poverty;

Too often Christian people have a cockeyed view of salvation seeing it as an escape route, a ticket to heaven. Such a view is not merely wrong, but leads to a limited engagement with the world in which we dwell. Such a perspective also leads to environmental vandalism because if we are longing to escape from this world to get to heaven then there is no requirement to care for God’s creation. This view ends up in a kind of Platonism that sees the physical world as evil and the