Salvation without Religion

I've just got back from our WEC France Conference late this afternoon and Pete Rollins book 'Insurrection - to believe is human; to doubt, divine' arrived through the post.

A quote from Bonhoeffer is on the first page :

"The Pauline question whether circumcision is a condition of justification seems to me in present-day terms to whether religion is a condition of salvation."

One has to remember that Bonhoeffer was part of the 'Confessing Church' in Nazi Germany where the mainline church supported Hitler. Bonhoeffer was imprisoned and then executed for his faith and his 'plot' to topple Hitler.

I believe that Jesus did not come to start a new religion which we now call 'christianity'; but rather to lead us into a new community, a revolutionary counter-empire community.

This vibrant organic community has been high-jacked by empire and in some cases detourné from it's original destiny and mandate which was given by Jesus.

The relational community life (God-Man(woman)Kind-Environment) has been often substituted by a dead, mechanical religion (mans attempt to better himself and come to god)...

For me religion is definitely not a condition of salvation...

what is the condition ? simply to accept the unconditional gift of God - His grace - his free gift of salvation...

It's an unconditional condition !