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Weekend Away 2008

Please read ALL of the following

1. WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? A Christian is someone whose sins have been forgiven by God, and who knows Jesus Christ personally as his or her friend and king.

2. IS THERE A COST INVOLVED IN BECOMING A CHRISTIAN? We cannot buy forgiveness of sins. It is a free gift of God. But if you become a Christian it means that in the future Christ must be your King. He will tell you to give up some things that you have done all your life. He will tell you to do other things that you have never done before. People may laugh at you for being a Christian. All this is not easy. Some of it is very hard. This is the cost of being a friend and follower of Jesus Christ.

3. HOW DO I KNOW THAT CHRIST WILL ACCEPT ME?

• QUESTION: Do I have to feel anything before I can ask God to save me?
• ANSWER: No!
• QUESTION: Am I too sinful to be saved?
• ANSWER: No!

The answer to these questions and all questions like them is that Christ is ready to receive anybody. Whoever you are, whatever you've done, whatever you feel, Jesus invites you, just as you are, to come to Him and be saved. You don't have to come to Jesus pretending that you are a better person than you really are. Christ knows you better than you know yourself, and he has said: 'All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.' (John 6: 37)

4. WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? In becoming a Christian a person must repent of their sin and believe and trust in Jesus Christ to save them.

5. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO REPENT OF SIN? Without Christ we are all sinful people and are always doing things that make God angry. We willingly go the way of sin. To repent is to turn round and go the other way. It means to hate sin and to seek to finish with it so as to please God.

6. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST? You must believe that Jesus is the Lord, and that He is able to save people from their sins. Then you must put your trust in Him to save you. How do you know if you have put your trust in Him? When you trust someone, you listen to them and do what they say. So it is when we trust Jesus.

7. I FEEL TOO WEAK TO REPENT AND TRUST JESUS; I WOULD GIVE UP TOO EASILY; WHAT CAN I DO? None of us by ourselves have the strength and willpower to repent and believe. We are all weak. But God is all-powerful. We must turn from our sin, but we must ask God to make us truly turn from it We must put our trust in Christ, but ask God to make it real trust. God is able even to make us truly repent and believe. He is able to keep us walking with Him in the future.

9. WHAT SHALL I SAY TO GOD WHEN I PRAY? God is not interested in fine words and speeches. But He will listen to anyone who is sincerely seeking Him, whatever words they use. As you pray you should:

• Confess your sins to God.
• Confess that these sins are wicked in God's sight and you deserve to be sent to Hell for them.
• Tell God that you have no power to save yourself.
• Ask Jesus to help you repent and believe.
• Ask Him to save you.
• Tell Jesus that you want Him as the king of your life.
• Ask God to hear your prayers because of Jesus Christ.

10. WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT? The next thing that you must do as soon as possible is to go and tell a Christian friend what you have done. If you have no friends who are Christians, you should try to find a church, which believes the Bible, and tell them.

It is very important that you find Christian fellowship as soon as possible.

"Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other." (Isaiah 45:22)