Thread: "When I got saved..."

Should we Reformed be uncomfortable with/opposed to the common evangelical phrase "when I got saved..." (as in, "back in April of 1996, when I got saved...")? Should we accept it as valid/proper theological language to be using -- for us and/or for our non-Reformed evangelical brethren -- or is it incompatible with Reformed soteriology?

Thanks.

No, we shouldn't be uncomfortable with it, unless it's oneself that's saying it about himself and it, for whatever reason, is burdening his conscience. What we want to avoid is making some kind of rule that a person should have some kind of specific date, etc. that his/her conversion occurred. As for me, the Lord convicted me of my sin and brought me to then end of myself on Thursday, June 16th, 1988 at a Vacation Bible School meeting in a . . . get this . . . Freewill Baptist Church. But my "conversion experience" is not supposed to be some sort of standard. God saves the way He pleases.

Right, nothing wrong with it except for style: it uses the passive voice to describe God's active work.

I am always pleased when I hear a new believer say "when God saved me" or something similar, but I don't think the common way of putting it should be a big deal. Certainly, if someone says "I got saved", they aren't saying they saved themselves.