What Steps are to do to become a Christian? First of all it’s always the great grace of God. All the good things come from heaven: „Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God above who created all heaven’s lights“ (James 1:17).

But here are three things you must do to know Jesus personally as your Lord and Savior:

1.) Recognize that you are a sinner. „For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard“ (Romans 3:23). Because everyone is a sinner, no one deserves eternal life with God in heaven. In addition, no one can work hard enough to earn this life. Instead, God gives eternal life to everyone who believes that Jesus Christ is his Son. Before you can appreciate what Jesus has done for you, you need to recognize that you are a sinner in need of God’s forgiveness. If you never acknowledge this, you will never accept God’s forgiveness for your sins; and you will never enter into heaven.

2.) Ask Jesus to forgive you. „Yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault“ (Colossians 1:22). If you recognize that you are a sinner, then you may be ready to ask Jesus to forgive you. Do you believe that Jesus is the eternal Son of God, who died to pay for your sins? If you do, and you have never thanked Christ for dying for you, you can thank him right now in a simple prayer.

3.) Turn away from your sins. „Those who have been born into God’s family do not sin, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning becaue they have been born of God“ (1 John 3:9). As a Christian, you may sin from time to time. But you should not continue to live a sinful lifestyle. Putting your faith in Jesus means that you are living to please God. You can live to please God by obeying the commands he has given everyone in the Bible. If you obey God, you can be sure that you are a Christian and will one day have eternal life in heaven. But it’s really not our work. Also if we do all these things, it’s always God pulling us to him.

written by Edwin Haase, christian author, Berlin/Germany.
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