The Gospel means "the Good News"!
And, "the Good News" is that if you do not already know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord you do not need to continue to live the life you are living which will end in death followed by God's righteous judgment. But, you can be "Born Again" into a new life, an eternal life of joy and love, in the Lord Jesus Christ and spend eternity with Him in Heaven. The Bible tells us that "God is love" truly understanding these words are
In order to be "Born Again" first you must BELIEVE:
- God created the world and everything in it, including you, for His purposes.
- All mankind, including you, has by choice acted against God’s purpose, in other words, acted against God’s will. And, that is what God calls sin.
- God being all powerful and perfectly just requires both a re-payment (recompense) and punishment (penalty) for the debt and damage caused by sin.
- The damage to God’s creation caused by sin is too great to be made right by man. There is no amount of good deeds done by man that can fix or somehow outweigh the unending and cascading destructive effects of man's sin. So, God also being perfectly merciful, full of grace, and the very definition of love, has provided a substitute, His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to bear the punishment and pay the debt for sin.
- Jesus Christ, who lived on earth as both fully God and fully man without sin, voluntarily went to His death on the cross, died for all, was buried, and on the third day was raised from the dead to live forevermore by the power of God. You, too, can be raised from a life of sin and death to a "new life", an eternal life, with the Lord Jesus Christ.
You will be "Born Again" when YOUR BELIEF leads you to:
(1) Whole-heartedly repent of your sins, including the sins of: living for your own selfish purposes, deciding for yourself what is right and wrong, and, attempting to put yourself in the position that is God’s rightful place in your life.
(2) Love God by coming to the Lord Jesus Christ by giving your life fully to Him with a heart desiring your own complete surrender and obedience to His Word, just as Jesus Christ showed His love by giving His life for you on the cross in complete and perfect obedience to God. After being "Born Again" by God's Holy Spirit: - Seek, discern, and find God’s will, God’s purposes, and His instruction for your "new life" in the Lord Jesus Christ through prayer and from within the Holy Bible, the Word of God, knowing that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. - Live out your "new life" in Christ day to day, hour to hour, by actively choosing God’s will and His purposes over your own by the power of the cross of Christ, the crucified life, and the Holy Spirit of God. - Find a biblically-sound church where you can: Be baptized by complete immersion in water as a public declaration of the death of your "old life" controlled by sin and the birth of the "new life" you live in Christ; Participate in Communion in remembrance of Lord Jesus Christ's death; and, Worship God and be in fellowship with other born again believers.
(1) Whole-heartedly repent of your sins, including the sins of: living for your own selfish purposes, deciding for yourself what is right and wrong, and, attempting to put yourself in the position that is God’s rightful place in your life.
(2) Love God by coming to the Lord Jesus Christ by giving your life fully to Him with a heart desiring your own complete surrender and obedience to His Word, just as Jesus Christ showed His love by giving His life for you on the cross in complete and perfect obedience to God. After being "Born Again" by God's Holy Spirit: - Seek, discern, and find God’s will, God’s purposes, and His instruction for your "new life" in the Lord Jesus Christ through prayer and from within the Holy Bible, the Word of God, knowing that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. - Live out your "new life" in Christ day to day, hour to hour, by actively choosing God’s will and His purposes over your own by the power of the cross of Christ, the crucified life, and the Holy Spirit of God. - Find a biblically-sound church where you can: Be baptized by complete immersion in water as a public declaration of the death of your "old life" controlled by sin and the birth of the "new life" you live in Christ; Participate in Communion in remembrance of Lord Jesus Christ's death; and, Worship God and be in fellowship with other born again believers.