Connecting With Jesus

What are the basic steps to becoming
a Christian?

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name”
(John 1:12).

The most important step in giving your life to God is to realize how much He loves you. The Lord wants Everyone to be saved. God isn’t trying to keep people out of heaven. In fact, Jesus came and gave his life for us so that we might receive salvation. “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:3-5).

We must next admit that we are sinners and lost without Jesus.”The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).”For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).”For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

We then repent of our sins. We acknowledge them and turn from them.”Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19). “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Then believe God has forgiven you.”In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His graces” (Ephesians 1:7).

Accept God’s free gift of salvation.”For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Since you now are a child of God, the Lord will begin to work in your life in amazing ways.”But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

Dear Jesus, I acknowledge my need of you. Please forgive me and come live in my life. I accept you as my personal Savior.

For Further Study: 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 5:11-13

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

1 John 5:11-15 KJV
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. [13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. [14] And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: [15] And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Isaiah 59:2 KJV
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Proverbs 28:13 KJV
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Hebrews 10:17 KJV
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

James 4:17 KJV
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Hebrews 10:17 KJV
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.