4 elements of salvation

this week I am wanitng to write about the four different elements of salvation, and how they may apply wihtin our youthwork. today, let me qucikly, and probably unjustly look at, propitiation, which in essence ensures that we don't face Gods wrath. When we are working with young people, do they see angry, frustrated annoyed people, who just take out their anger on them, or do they see happy people who are pleased to see them. I think often that young people see God through us and the work we do with them, so if we tell them that God#'s anger has been taken away, torugh the death of Jesus, that god has ensured that he will not look at us in an angry way, do we demonstrate any of that when young people play us up, when they shout at us, when they take all their own anger nd frustration out on us. Let's just remember that if we talk about Gods love, and want to see young people embrace that, and know that Gods wrath has been delt with, then we actually need to demonstrate that in our own lives in how we are with other people.