"Salvation is not an event—even an event as important as accepting forgiveness for your sins. Salvation is instead an ongoing process during this life and beyond it that begins with receiving God’s forgiveness, continues with transformation more and more into the model of human existence that Jesus offered, and concludes after death when our bodies are transformed into ones that are free of the effects of suffering and death and we can bask fully in the joy of God’s presence. The right response to the question of “when did you get saved” is neither “When I accepted Jesus into my heart” or “When I was baptized”; the right answer is “I was saved by Jesus on the cross; I am being saved by God helping me to becoming more like Jesus every day; and I will be saved when my I am transformed after death and can enter into the joy of God’s presence that goes on forever.”