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What
are you searching for?
What is the purpose of your life?
How will you handle the really tough times?
Hard
questions don't have easy answers, but they do have an answer. That
answer is ultimately found in the God who created the universe and
loves you unconditionally. How do you find that God? How do you reach
Him? This is the Good News: God has come looking for you! He has
reached out to you!
Saying "Yes" to God begins with your desire to respond to His
gracious Gift of Jesus Christ. In the “information overload” of
our modern society, it is difficult to believe that God’s wonderful
Plan of Salvation is so simple. Below are some ABC’s to help you
see just how simple it really is, as synthesized from His Divinely inspired
Holy Word. Discover for yourself life the way it was meant to be. Receive
God's Gift today!
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Admit that
you need a right relationship with God.
Pride
keeps us from doing some of the most important things
in life. Don't let your pride keep you from THE most
important thing in this life and the next! As the
Scriptures record in Romans 3: Verses 10 & 23,
respectively:
v.10 "As
is it written: There is no one righteous,
not even one;
v.23 ...for
all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God," (NIV)
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Believe that
God's Son Jesus Christ makes possible your having a right
relationship with God.
The
simple truth is that there is nothing that we can
do, no matter how much “goodness” in
our lives, to ever restore our individual relationship
with God. This truth is encompassed in 2 Corinthians
5:
v.19 “that
God was reconciling the world to himself in
Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” (NIV)
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Confess your
sin to God and accept His forgiveness.
Everyone
of us chooses to live our lives like we want to,
taking charge, ignoring God, pleasing ourselves.
That's what separates us from God. That's why we
need His forgiveness. This need is met through the
shed blood of Jesus Christ, as in Acts 13:
v.38 "Therefore,
my brothers, I want you to know that through
Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed
to you.” (NIV)
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Dedicate yourself
as a fully devoted follower of Christ.
Receiving
God's gift of forgiveness through Jesus Christ will
set you in a direction exactly opposite of the one
you've been going in because now you're following
Christ. Jesus was recorded as setting that direction,
by requiring us to give up our (old) lives and take
up the new, in Luke 9:23:
v.23 Then
he said to them all: "If
anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take
up his cross daily and follow me.” (NIV)
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Express your
faith in Christ publicly.
What
God does for you in His Son Jesus Christ is the greatest
thing that will ever happen to you. It requires a
clear confession that you have given Him your very
life, as established by Romans 10:
v.9 “That
if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and
believe in your heart that God raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved.” (NIV)
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