The events that became the church's story of salvation happened to a community of believers. (religion-online.org)
The whole story of our salvation is sandwiched between the marriage of man and woman in Genesis and the marriage of Christ and the Church in Revelation,» he says. (premierchristianity.com)
One might call this the soteriological captivity of creation, because it succeeds in emptying the world of its own meaning as a realm of divine governance and human involvement prior to and apart from the biblical story of salvation culminating in Christ. (firstthings.com)