How Can I Become a Christian?

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

2 Петра 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. 

Иеремия 17:9

Лукаво сердце человеческое более всего и крайне испорчено; кто узнает его?

Римлянам 3:23

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

Римлянам 6:23

Ибо возмездие за грех — смерть, а дар Божий — жизнь вечная во Христе Иисусе, Господе нашем.

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

Ефесянам 2:8

Ибо благодатью вы спасены через веру, и сие не от вас, Божий дар.

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. 

Деяния 3:19

Итак покайтесь и обратитесь, чтобы загладились грехи ваши, да придут времена отрады от лица Господа.

1 Иоанна 1:9

Если исповедуем грехи наши, то Он, будучи верен и праведен, простит нам грехи наши и очистит нас от всякой неправды.

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 Иоанна 5:11-13

И вот свидетельство: Бог дал нам жизнь вечную, и эта жизнь - в Его Сыне. Кто имеет Сына, тот имеет жизнь; кто не имеет Сына Божия, тот не имеет жизни. Сие написал я к вам, верующим во имя Сына Божия, дабы вы знали, что имеете жизнь вечную, и дабы вы пребывали в вере во имя Сына Божия.

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. 

Иоанна 1:12

А тем, кто принял Его, Он дал право стать детьми Божьими, верующими в Его имя.

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.