The Good News!

Does God care about me?

Yep, he sure does! The Bible teaches us about God’s love for everyone; "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." [John 3:16]. God loves us and wants us all to be with Him.

Why do I need God?

This is God’s world. He made it - he made us. But all people have disobeyed and turned away from God in some way; "...everyone has sinned and is far away from God’s saving presence." [Romans 3:23]. This willful disobedience is called Sin. Sin is loving ourselves and what we want more than wanting to love God and please Him – sin keeps us apart from God. The price of sin is death; ".... But unless you repent, you too will all perish." [Luke 13:3]

What hope have I got?

Jesus Christ paid that death penalty for us, and calls to us to follow Him; "Jesus is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands." [1 John 2:2-3] That means that Jesus died instead of you, and you can now be close to God if you believe in Jesus, the Lamb of God, and the sacrifice he made for you.

How can I make peace with God?

Jesus was raised from death into New Life; "Because of our sins He was given over to die, and He was raised to life in order to put us right with God. Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ." [Romans 4:25 & 5:1]. Instead of death, God promises us New Life with Him, too, if we have faith in Him !

If you realize that you need to be ‘put right’ with God, then you need to accept Jesus as your Lord and the Saviour of your life. Ask God to forgive you for your sins and ask him to enter your life and make a new person of you. "But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong." [1 John 1:9] This process of turning back to God is called Repentance.

By giving yourself to him in this way you are made new, or "born again", spiritually. "... for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God's own family..." [1 Peter 1:3] And so Jesus becomes part of your new life - you become part of God’s family. This is called Salvation.

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