Another idea from my Husband: the Roman Road. A way of
walking through salvation. Both my
husband and I are firm believers that Christians have a responsibility to know
what they believe in, including important doctrinal issues. It is the best to
believe that the bible is true but even better to know what you are believing
in the bible. What better way to start than to understand the whole basis for
our beliefs?
The first key verse is Romans 3:23; “For all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God”. It’s so simple, but we still manage to get
this idea wrong. Sometimes I think we view it as “For all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God, but if I do this or that, then it will be
enough for God to love me or enough to be saved”, or the opposite: that we are
so low, and so screwed up that there is nothing beyond this verse.
It is important to realize that there is nothing we can do
to ever be good enough. Isaiah 64:6 says that our most righteous acts are like
filthy rags (literally talking about a dirty feminine hygiene product, to put
as nicely as I can) before God. The best part is: we don’t have to be good
enough. This concept is not meant to depress us, but to truly show how
miraculous and absolutely grace based Jesus’ act on the cross was. We are free
indeed (Romans 6)!
Stay tuned for the next installments of the Roman Road
(there are 4 more concepts we need to know).
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