{"id":7260,"date":"2016-08-16T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/becominga-christian\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:37","slug":"becominga-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/becominga-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"BECOMING\nA CHRISTIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>See also: Accepting God; Conversion<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Henry Drummond<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Desiderius Erasmus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Someone once asked Billy Graham, \u201cIf Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?\u201d To this the famous preacher replied, \u201cWith so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Billy Graham<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Neither is it a verbal acknowledgment, in owning that which Christ suffered at Jerusalem, which will free any from this charge and guilt. Unless the Lord Christ, that Christ which is God and man in one person, is owned, received, believed in, loved, trusted unto, and obeyed in all things, as he is proposed unto us in the Scripture, and with respect unto all the ends of righteousness, holiness, life, and salvation, for which he is so proposed, he is renounced and forsaken.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Owen<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The best way I know how is by praying a simple prayer of faith. The important thing isn\u2019t saying the right words but, perhaps for the first time in your life, talking heart to heart with the Lord and inviting him in.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Luis Palau<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it\u2019s important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Luis Palau<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Going to church doesn\u2019t make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Billy Sunday<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: Accepting God; Conversion The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything. Henry Drummond By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus Someone once asked Billy Graham, \u201cIf Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/becominga-christian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BECOMING<br \/>\nA CHRISTIAN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}