From time to time people ask if there is a simple way to lead some to Christ. There are many helpful ways to do that. Let me first of all refer you to the blog entry Fully Devoted Followers Share their Faith with Others, for some back ground. I personally use the Roman Road. I like it because it is simple and the passages are easy to remember because they are all in one book of the Bible.
[Rom 3:23 ESV] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
This passage reminds us that all of us fall short of what God desire of us. We have all missed the mark of what it means to be O.K. in God’s eyes.
[Rom 6:23 ESV] For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Here we are told that the result of our falling short is death. This death refers to spiritual death. Spiritual death is being separated from God. It is being cut off from God in this life and in the life to come. But the verse goes on to say that God offers a remedy for death and that is eternal life. This life is both a quality of life and a length of life. It is a gift that God graciously offers us. It can not be earned in any way.
[Rom 5:8 ESV] but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
This passage shows the extent of God’s love for each of us. God did not wait for us to get our life together. He sent Jesus to take the full penalty of our sin so that we could be reconciled to God.
[Rom 10:9-10 ESV] because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
This passage tells us how we can be saved, put right with God. It happens when we do two things:
1. Confess Jesus as Lord. This means that we agree with God that Jesus is the only Lord and that for all of our lives we have tried to be God. We now step off the throne of our lives as ask Jesus to take his rightful place and our Lord and Master. From now on we will follow his direction.
2. Believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead. We must trust what God did in and through the cross of Christ. We trust that when God says he accepts the sacrifice of Christ, he means what he says.
When we do those things we have God’s promise:
[Rom 10:13 ESV] For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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