Bridge Of Life
18th September 2009
It can be hard to give a definitive answer to what a Christian is and people do have varying ideas. Having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is a popular answer, but it needs further development with topics like repentance and forgiveness. The following 8 versus are one example of an attempt to use the Bible at explaining the basics of Christianity which has been called by some the "bridge to life".
- ROMANS 3 v 23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". All means there are no exceptions.
- ISAIAH 59 v 2 "but your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that he will not hear". Sin separates us from God
- HEBREWS 9 v 27 "Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement". God does call us to account with how we have lead our lives.
- EPHESIANS 2 v 8 - 9 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no-one can boast". Salvation is a gift. No one earns or deserves it.
- ROMANS 5 v 8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us". God made the necessary move to restore the relationship between Himself and man.
- ACTS 17 v 30 "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent". We need to turn from our sins.
- JOHN 1 v 12 "Yet to all who receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God". Believing brings you in to God's family.
- REVELATION 3 v 20 "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me". God wants to fellowship with us and He is waiting to do so.
Becoming a Christian means recognising that we are sinners and believing that the death of Jesus was a perfect sacrifice to restore man to God. The relationship that follows is what needs to be maintained and a set of rules or versus is far too narrow to quantify this relationship.