First, check out this YouTube clip from an atheist who shows the PROPER attitude towards evangelism (Remember, this is not a preacher talking, this is a devout ATHEIST):
So what needs to be told? The short version is this:
- There is a judgment coming on all humanity (Revelation 20:11-12).
- None of us are good enough to pass muster (James 2:10). No one is righteous. (Romans 3:10)
- We deserve death because of our sin (Romans 6:23)
- If even the righteous die in the body (Hebrews 9:27), then another death is prescribed for the unrighteous.
This is referred to as the 'second death', what we call Hell, in Revelation 20:14. A literal lake of fire. - Anyone whose name is not found in the Book of Life, as v.15 says, will be cast into this Hell.
- So how can anyone escape this terrible place? In Acts 16:30, the jailer asked what he must do to be saved. Peter and Silas' response? :
- "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." --Acts 16:31
- What does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?
Firstly, you must trust Jesus in everything.
Secondly, Jesus is the Word of God, says John 1:1, 14, I John 1:1, among other places.
He is God's very words, God's very testimony, also found in the Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:16).
In other words, Jesus is the Bible!
Faith in Jesus means both faith in Jesus Himself and in what the Bible says.
If you believe what the Bible says, and EVERYTHING the Bible says, you believe in Jesus, and you will be saved.
However, if you don't, you will be damned. (Mark 16:16) Jesus is the ONLY way to be saved (Acts 4:12). All other ways (Catholic, possibly Protestant*, Mormon, JW, Modern Judaism, Islam, Shinto, etc.) lead to Hell, because they either preach a false teaching about God and/or preach a false Jesus, none of which save (also see Galatians 1:8-9). - Next, get baptized (by immersion). (Acts 2:38, Acts 8:38-39)
- Also, read the Bible and obey what you read. I would start with the New Testament, starting in the book of Matthew.
- * "Protestant" is a catch-all term for lots of christian denominations, nearly all of them, if not all of them false. Why? Beliefs in Christmas (see "Personal Statement of Faith", inter-doctrinal ecumenism, traditions of men (Matthew 15:9) such as the liturgical calendar, etc.)
God is worthy of our fear. We must fear Him, not simply an awe of God, but a literal dread (Isaiah 8:13), especially when Luke 12:4-5 says:
"And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him."
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