We have been having a lot of conversations lately with Max about loving Jesus and Jesus being our forever friend. We have talked about doing what Jesus would want us to do in our lives. Loving people like Jesus would love people. We have talked about how we make mistakes, we sin, we make bad choices...all of us.
The bible says the following:
"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9) .
We believe that in order to be promised eternity in heaven you need to do this. We believe that to be a Christian you need to have a conversation with God. You need to confess to Him in prayer that you are a sinner, you need to acknowledge that HE is Lord and you need to tell Jesus that you want to follow Him. That we all need help from Him in this world. You are not born a Christian, because you are in a Christian family...it is a choice each of us makes no matter what family we grow up in. My brother and I made the decision to accept Christ at bible camp in the 4th and 5th grade respectively...it was a special evening...I will never forget it.
Yesterday Max said this prayer with me after our church service. He has asked for quite some time about communion and what that means. We have shared with him that communion is a special time where we thank Jesus for dying on the cross for us, we ask Him to forgive us and we commit to him that we will do our very best to follow Him. Yesterday there was communion and again Max asked me about it...why we do it, why he doesn't do it...and at the end of church he whispered in my ear that he wanted to pray a special prayer to ask Jesus to be in his heart forever and ever and to promise to do his best to follow him.
Then after we prayed we had our own time of communion...just Max and me. His very first communion. It was special. He was teary, I don't know if the tears were from the Holy Spirit or just from his own emotion but he was moved. (or tired and crabby I guess, he is 5)
And of course, we snapped photos on our way out of church.
The bible says the following:
"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9) .
We believe that in order to be promised eternity in heaven you need to do this. We believe that to be a Christian you need to have a conversation with God. You need to confess to Him in prayer that you are a sinner, you need to acknowledge that HE is Lord and you need to tell Jesus that you want to follow Him. That we all need help from Him in this world. You are not born a Christian, because you are in a Christian family...it is a choice each of us makes no matter what family we grow up in. My brother and I made the decision to accept Christ at bible camp in the 4th and 5th grade respectively...it was a special evening...I will never forget it.
Yesterday Max said this prayer with me after our church service. He has asked for quite some time about communion and what that means. We have shared with him that communion is a special time where we thank Jesus for dying on the cross for us, we ask Him to forgive us and we commit to him that we will do our very best to follow Him. Yesterday there was communion and again Max asked me about it...why we do it, why he doesn't do it...and at the end of church he whispered in my ear that he wanted to pray a special prayer to ask Jesus to be in his heart forever and ever and to promise to do his best to follow him.
Then after we prayed we had our own time of communion...just Max and me. His very first communion. It was special. He was teary, I don't know if the tears were from the Holy Spirit or just from his own emotion but he was moved. (or tired and crabby I guess, he is 5)
And of course, we snapped photos on our way out of church.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
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