Our Condition
People decided to live life their own way and not the way God had intended. Ignoring God is called sin. Because of this sin, rebellion from God, we are separated from God losing our unbroken relationship with God, which has resulted in suffering and death.
- Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 (NIV)
- For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23(NIV)
God's Care
God, being a loving God who cares about us, his creation, sent his son Jesus Christ into the world to redeem the world and us from sin and restore the relationship we lost because of sin. This is why Jesus had to die on the cross. His death on the cross and resurrection from the dead was the work of God to defeat sin and death, and bring hope into our world.
- "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 (NIV)
- For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, 1 Peter 3:18 (NIV)
NEW LIFE from God
Our Choice
A living faith in Jesus Christ, complete trust in him, is God’s way of restoring the relationship we had God before sin entered the world. You can have peace with God and a relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ.
- 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. Ephesians 2:8,9 (NIV)
God's Child
When we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and live by faith in him we receive NEW LIFE FOREVER, by the grace of God. Our life is changed and we no longer live for ourselves, but for Jesus who has now saved us, as his children.
- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 (NIV)