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How to become a Christian
 | Recognize that you have chosen to live a life where you fall short
of God's standard of Perfection. |
| Accept that you can not do anything by yourself to meet God's standard.
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| Acknowledge that Jesus Christ alone can rescue you from God's punishment for failing to
meet His standard of perfection. |
| Desire to turn your life around by accepting that you were heading the wrong way and
plan to live God's way. |
| Accept the free gift of salvation that God offers to every person who believes.
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| Pray (the way we talk to God) acknowledging the preceeding facts. |
| Find a group of people who believe in Jesus Christ Apostolic Churches and tell them
the good news that you now also believe in Jesus and show your faith by following Jesus
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| Read and obey Acts 2:38 |
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(Mat 5:48 NKJV) "Therefore you shall be perfect, just
as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Notice God's standard is perfection. Later on Jesus describes to one man what he must
do to be perfect (Mat 19:21 NKJV) Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect,
go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and
come, follow Me." In the society of Jesus' day, this could include all
residences, properties. Clearly, what this man was requested to do was impossible without
God's intervention.
Does every one fall short (Rom 3:23 NKJV) for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God. The Bible clearly teaches that ALL have sinned — that's you and me.
Of course, you might say, what about those who never heard. The Bible answers by
saying that (Rom 2:12 NKJV) For as many as have sinned without law will also perish
without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law. In other
words, regardless of where we have lived, we will be judged by the circumstances under
which we lived.
The Bible — whether we like it or not — teaches
that the penalty of missing God's perfection is death. (Rom 5:12 NKJV) Therefore, just
as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to
all men, because all sinned; Also God tells us (2 Pet 2:4,9 NKJV) For if God did
not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; . . . then the Lord knows how to deliver the
godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of
judgment. Back
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