How Can I Become a Christian?

1. Recognize that God loves you with an immense love and desires to save you. 

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

1 Timothy 2:3-5

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.

2. Acknowledge that you are a sinner, lost without Jesus Christ. 

Jeremia 17:9

Das Herz ist trügerisch, mehr als alles andere, und verzweifelt böse; wer kann es kennen?

Römer 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short o the glory of God.

Römer 6:23

Denn der Lohn der Sünde ist der Tod, die Gabe Gottes aber ist das ewige Leben in Christus Jesus, unserem Herrn.

3. Accept that salvation is a gift offered freely through Jesus. It is not something to be “earned” by righteous deeds or good works. 

Epheser 2:8

Denn aus Gnade seid ihr durch den Glauben gerettet, und das nicht aus eigener Kraft: Gott hat es geschenkt.

Romans 3:24-27

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

4. Repent of any known sins, confessing them to Jesus. 

Apostelgeschichte 3:19

Tut also Buße und bekehrt euch, damit eure Sünden ausgelöscht werden und Zeiten der Erquickung vom Angesicht des Herrn kommen.

1. Johannes 1:9

Wenn wir unsere Sünden bekennen, ist er treu und gerecht, sodass er uns die Sünden vergibt und uns von aller Ungerechtigkeit reinigt.

5. Believe that God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you. As you surrender your life to Jesus, you are forgiven and accepted. The gift of eternal life is yours by faith. 

Ephesians 1:4-7

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

1. Johannes 5:11-13

Und das ist das Zeugnis: Gott hat uns ewiges Leben gegeben, und dieses Leben ist in seinem Sohn. Wer den Sohn hat, hat das Leben; wer den Sohn Gottes nicht hat, hat das Leben nicht. Dies habe ich euch geschrieben, die ihr an den Namen des Sohnes Gottes glaubt, damit ihr wisst, dass ihr ewiges Leben habt, und damit ihr weiterhin an den Namen des Sohnes Gottes glaubt.

6. Since you are now Christ’s child, His precious possession, He will begin to work miraculous changes in your life through His Holy Spirit. 

Johannes 1:12

Allen aber, die ihn aufnahmen, gab er das Recht, Kinder Gottes zu werden, denen, die an seinen Namen glauben.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

7. Our loving Savior has pledged to guide us from earth to heaven. You may fall but remember He is there to pick you up and get you started on the road to heaven again.