Step One
God's Purpose: Peace and Life

God loves you and wants you to experience true peace and life--both here on earth and eternally. 

One way the Bible puts it...

            "I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed  of." (John 10:10)

Why don't most people have this peace and abundant life that God planned for us to have?

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Step Two
The Problem: Our Separation

God created us in His own image to have an abundant life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him. God gave us a will and a freedom of choice.

We chose to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God.

Here's how the Bible describes it...

           "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

Our Attempts to Reach God

People have tried in many ways to bridge this gap between themselves and God...

The Bible says...

           "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12)

"But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear." (Isaiah 59:2)

                                                                                                                                                             

No bridge reaches God...except one.

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Step Three
God's Bridge: The Cross

Jesus Christ died on the Cross and rose from the grave. He paid the penalty for our sin and bridged the gap between God and people.

The Bible says...

^"Since we've compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ." (Romans3:23-24)

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

God has provided the only way. Each person must make a choice.

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Step Four
Our Response: Receive Christ

We must trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior (The Forgiver of our sins) and receive Him by personal invitation.

The way the Bible puts it...

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."
(Revelation 3:20)

"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."
(John 1:12)

"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."
(Romans 10:9)