God is alive in our lives. He isn't trapped in an old book or out there in the galaxy somewhere playing chess with us as the pawns. God isn't a good luck charm that we rub in a time of trouble, He is our Master and our way of life. That's why we made this page!

The Bible says in Romans 3:23 that we are all sinners and fall short of His glory. What does this mean? Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE sins. No matter how much good we do in our lives we all also do wrong. One wrong is one too many for God.

Because God is just, He must punish all sin. How does He punish sin? Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death. By sinning we earn death. Not physical death, for we all must go through that. The Bible is talking of spiritual death. The second half of this verse is the good news!! God gives us the gift of eternal life in Jesus!!!!

So if sin earns death, how can we earn life? How do we stand clean before God when we have all sinned? Good question!

First, someone has to pay our debt. God explains in John 3:16-18a as Jesus Himself says " For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish (die) but have eternal life. For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned..."(NIV)

In Acts 16:30 & 31 a jailer asked this same question of the apostles, Paul and Silas, who were in his jail at the time. They answered "believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved - you and your household.(NIV)" It just takes faith.

Now this is where we usually loose some people. They say "How can you have faith in something that you haven't seen with your own eyes?". Good point. Have you ever seen gravity? Of course not, and yet, we could not convince you to step off a 10 story building because although you haven't seen gravity you have faith in it's principals! The same applies to our faith in God. Although we haven't seen Him face to face, we have seen His principals worked out in our lives daily! So how do we know that we have been saved from death?

Here is how the Bible puts it.............Romans 5:1-2 & 6-11 says...

"Therefore,since we have been justified {or made sinless } through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.... You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him! for if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only this is so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation."(NIV)

Ok. If you're sitting there scratching your head like we were the first time we heard this, we'll put it in simple terms! God doesn't sin. We all do. Sin will earn us death. Jesus, God’s son, became a man (100% God & 100% man) and didn't ever sin. This sinless man died to pay the price of OUR sin. Good works aren’t enough to pay off our sin debt. Only Jesus death can. All you need is faith in that fact and you can be forgiven by God who then forgets all of our sins and applies Jesus payment to our debt. AND THE COOL PART IS THAT GOD LOVED US ENOUGH TO PAY THE PRICE EVEN BEFORE WE KNEW WHO HE WAS!!!!!! Now, I don't know about you, but we can love a God like that!

If you realize that you need a God like our God...please pray this prayer with us;

God, I realize that I have sinned. I understand that I have earned death with that sin. I know that no good works that I can ever do will repay that debt. I also understand that Jesus paid my debt for me. I accept that. Please forgive me for my sin because Jesus already died for it. Come into my life and take over. Thank you, God for loving me enough to send Jesus. In His Name I pray, AMEN.

YIPEE! YAHOOO! ALLLLLRIGHTTTT!!! WAYTOGO!!!! ALLLLLRIGHTTTT!!! YAHOOO! YIPEE! HALLELUJAH!! PRAISE GOD!! AMEN!! WOOHOO!!

If you prayed this prayer, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD!!!!!! There are just a few things that you need to do now to grow in your new relationship. You need a Bible, if you don't have one, sign in to our guestbook and let us know, and we'll get you one. Find a church that believes in New Testament doctrine. We're a Southern Baptist church and we're a bit partial to Southern Baptists, but you don't have to be. There are three or four different doctrines (beliefs) that stick close to the New Testament. The key is to make sure the church is teaching from the Holy Bible and they are teaching the Word of God.  Now that you are a believer the Bible says in Hebrews 10:24-25 that you should find other believers to worship with and learn from.  Let us know that you prayed this prayer so that we can pray for you and so we can help you find a church in your local area. We can say this from the bottom of our hearts, although we've never met you in person, we love you because Jesus loves you and He lives in us! You will understand this better as you grow in God's grace.

Grace and peace to you, brother or sister.

The Morningside Baptist Church Team, fellow sinners (and by God’s grace also forgiven)

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