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The Foundations of Our Faith

How can I be Saved?

It is vitally important that we know that we are saved. Salvation is the only way to get to heaven. I John 5:13 lets us know that we can be certain that we are saved right now. Here are the steps to getting saved.

1. Realize that you are a sinner.
Romans 3:23 tells us, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." All means all! We need to realize that everyone of us has sinned against a holy God Who hates sin.

2. Realize that there is a way out of sin!
Romans 6:23 tells us. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Wages are something you earn. Sin brings death, but God has given us a way to escape death! If we accept the free gift from God, we can have eternal life. Death or life - it's your choice!

3. Realize that Jesus Christ died for our sins
Romans 5:8 tells us, "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." The penalty for sin is death, but Jesus took our place.

4. Repent of your sins
Acts 3:19 tells us, "Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the Lord;" Repent means saying we're sorry for our sins, and to be sorry enought to quit! When we repent of what we have done wrong Jesus will ALWAYS forgive us.

5. Receive Jesus into your heart
Revelations 3:20 tells us, "Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." Once we repent of our sins, all we have to do is ask Jesus to come into our heart, and if we believe that He will, He will ALWAYS keep His word.

 

If you are ready to receive Jesus as your Saviour pray this prayer and mean it from your heart...

 

"Lord Jesus, I realize that I am a sinner. I thank you for dying on the cross on my behalf. I am sorry for my sins, and with your help, I will live my life for You. I ask you to come into my heart right now. I now believe You to be my Saviour. In Jesus name, Amen."

 

If you meant that prayer from your heart, you are now a part of God's family!

What Bible Methodists Believe

THE BIBLE

We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments to be inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. We believe the Bible is the complete revelation of God's plan for the salvation of man and the divine and final authority for all Christian belief and practice.

 

GOD

We believe that God is an Eternal Personal Being of absolute knowledge, power, and goodness, eternally existent in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

 

JESUS CHRIST

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, free from moral taint of nature, perfect in life and conduct, in His miracles, and in His vicarious death. We believe in His atonement for the whole human race, in His bodily resurrection from the dead, in His ascension into heaven where at the right hand of God He is now our High Priest and Advocate, and in His bodily return to earth in His second coming.

 

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe the Holy Spirit, the third person in the triune God, is a person and an agent in creation, preservation, revelation, and redemption.

 

LIFE AFTER DEATH

We believe in the conscious existence of the dead, the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the everlasting life of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the wicked.

 

MAN

We believe that man was created by God, that he did not evolve from matter or from lower forms of life, that because of willful disobedience he brought upon himself both physical and spiritual death, and that he passed on to all posterity a sinful nature for which he becomes personally responsible to God at the age of accountability.

 

THE WAY OF SALVATION

We believe that man's return to God is only through the enabling of the Holy Spirit. We believe that both repentance and faith are conditions for obtaining the new birth. We believe that born-again Christians are called to be cleansed from a remaining sinful nature and filled with the Holy Spirit through a definite confession of inward sinfulness, a presentation of oneself as a living sacrifice, and an obedient faith in the promised cleansing through the atoning blood. It is not, however, the teaching of the church that this cleansing delivers from infirmities, from ignorance, or from mistakes which are common to man. We believe that the Holy Spirit bears witness to both the new birth, as the first work of grace, and also to heart cleansing and Spirit fullness, as the second work of grace, all of which are retained by daily obedience and faith. We believe that evidence of the Spirit's fullness is not the possession of spiritual gifts but rather a life of inward and outward righteousness. We believe that man's return to God from a fallen state is completed in the redemption of the corruptible body at the resurrection.

 

THE CHURCH

We believe that the church is God's ordained institution composed of all who believe on Jesus Christ for salvation, among whom the Word of God is preached, worship of God is exercised, the means of grace are duly administered, the attitudes toward God and man as exemplified in Jesus Christ are fostered, and the solemn obligation of a world-wide gospel witness is faithfully fulfilled.

 

THE PRACTICE OF GODLY LIVING AND SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD

We believe the Bible expressly calls the Christian to a life of righteousness and good works and to a separation from such practices, pleasures, pursuits, and plans as will harm the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit, weaken the mind, hinder the testimony for Christ, and hurt the church. We believe that non-use of tobacco and alcoholic beverages; non-membership in secret oath-bound societies; modesty, neatness and simplicity of attire; absence of superfluous adornment; honesty in business practices; the refraining from uncharitable, unprofitable, and unchristian conversation; proper observance of the Lord's Day; and chaste and prudent conduct in all the social and moral areas of life are reasonable and consistent applications of the Bible teaching of separation and godly living and are based upon scriptural principles.