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Originally Posted by Bill Gray:

Contendah, my Friend,

 

Yes, I know what Peter and the apostles told the people in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost 33 AD.

 

However, I am interested in what Contendah 2014 AD would tell folks who do not believe.

 

In YOUR own words, how would YOU tell a non-believer that he/she needs to have a relationship with Jesus Christ so that he/she can have eternal life in Him?   In your own words; but feel free to quote Scripture in support of YOUR own words.

 

You keep saying that I am wrong.  But, how can you say that I am wrong -- when YOU cannot tell us what YOU would say in that same situation?   If you cannot tell us that, you have no position to stand upon to say that I am wrong.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

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I would do what I have done before.  I would go to the scriptures with them and "tell them the story of Jesus" and in that I would make every effort to show them that He is indeed the Son of God and that He can be their Redeemer if they will allow Him to be, for the Jesus I know never forced Himself or his teachings on anyone. I would show them what the will of Jesus is for them, including the very clear teaching of the New Testament concerning what they need to do in order to be saved in heaven eternally.  Should they come to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, I would  tell them no more and no less than the same things Peter told those anguished sinners on that first Day of Pentecost following the death of Jesus. I would show them from Acts Chapter 2, verses 36-41 and from Acts 22:10-16 what penitent believers were called upon to do in order to be saved and I would urge them to do those same things. I would read with them the clear teaching of Romans 6: 1-11 concerning baptism and at that point, I would hope that they would see clearly what they needed to do in order to "walk in newness of life" (v 4).  I would NOT tell them to pray anything like the "sinner's prayer" so often enjoined upon folks seeking salvation, because I can find no place in my Bible where Jesus, his apostles, any evangelist, teacher or any other person ever instructed a lost sinner to say a prayer of any kind as a prerequisite to salvation. I would advise him that those who do insist upon a "sinner's prayer" are teaching something not taught in scripture and that such folks might correctly be described as liberals to be avoided. Having thus advised such a person, and upon his following the clear teaching of scripture concerning God's plan of salvation, I would conclude that he had established a relationship with Christ, a relationship based on what the Bible teaches rather than upon the convenient, truncated false doctrines so prevalent in so much of the teaching of evangelical churches of today.

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