1. 3. TURNING STEPS Now we are not christians by being born into a christian family, confirmed, baptised, taking communion, reading your Bible, going to church, praying, being good, giving money to charities etc. We are christians when we make a decision to exchange the record of all the things we have done wrong for Jesus perfect record. SAY YOU DECIDED TO BECAME A CHRISTIAN TODAY >> You would come before almighty God at judgement. He would look at you and say “ Welcome to heaven _______!! I love you! Come into heaven to live with me forever.” And you would say “But what about all the things I have done wrong?” He will say “What things? I don’t even see them! All I see is the perfect record Jesus gave you the day you became a christian. Come in!” But say you never actually made a decision to become a christian and you die. This is what it will be like for you at death. You would come before almighty God at judgement. He will look at you and begin to cry. He will say ________, I can’t let you into heaven. I have to send you to hell. I died on the cross for you. I sent someone to specifically tell you why I died on the cross for you. There were churches all through the town where you lived. I gave you a conscience so you could tell right from wrong. I created a world so beautiful that it was impossible for you not to know that I existed. And finally, I rose from the dead to prove that I was God and that everything I said and did was true. Yet, after all my attempts to get through to you, you did just nothing. You never experienced that third major event. I’m sorry ______, I can’t let you into heaven. Now it doesn’t have to be like that for you. Only you can decide which of these two endings you have. I can’t make that choice for you. If you can really, honestly, genuinely want to make a decision to follow God, you are ready for that event!! Talk to God now! Ask Him to swap your imperfect record for Jesus perfect record. Say sorry for the things you have done wrong. Ask God to be the boss of your life and to help you. And tell someone else what you have done, and stick by it! This will mean your life will be changed. Don’t ask God to be the boss unless you want him to be. But it is the very best thing you could do!

2. 1. BEGINNING STEPS 4. FOLLOWING STEPS 3. TURNING STEPS 2. SEEKING STEPS 5. SERVING STEPS GOD THE CROWD 1. Beginning Steps are when you are just checking out God, but aren’t too interested in the whole thing. 2. Seeking Steps are when you decide - yeah, maybe I will check out God a bit more. 3. Turning Steps are when you make a decision to follow God. 4. Following Steps are when you actually start doing that - doing what God wants, not what you want. 5. Serving Steps are when you live your life as much as you can for Him, and for other people. YOU ARE HERE – Turning steps! That means you are maybe at a place where you are thinking about deciding to follow God.  We all have different reasons - what has made you curious about God? The Bible simply says that God is holy and Heaven is holy. Holy just means perfect. If you look in a dictionary, perfect means without flaw or fault. Say you had a crystal clear glass of water and you put one drop of ink into it, even though you couldn’t see the ink, it would no longer be pure. It would be polluted. That is what heaven is like. God cannot let anything imperfect into heaven. Now the Bible also says that all of us have a soul (the life force within you, the unique you, the bit inside you that can’t be x rayed) At death, your body simply goes into the ground and decomposes. But your soul this lives on forever in one of two places: H _ _ _ _ _ or H _ _ _ Unfortunately, we have a bit of a problem! The Bible says that if we have done one thing wrong (lied once, cheated once, hated once), just once, our souls are like that glass of water - they have been polluted. Do you know anyone who has never done anything wrong? No! Neither do I! All people have imperfect souls because all people have done wrong things. If there is only two places for the human soul to go at death - heaven or hell, and to get to heaven, we have to have a perfect record, and none of us have got a perfect soul, then unfortunately all of us are headed for: _____________ This is the bad news. But here is the good news! >>> That is why Jesus is the most significant person who has ever lived and who ever will live! Did you know that there is a difference in our souls and Jesus soul? YEP! He was perfect. Now before Jesus came down from heaven, he said to the father “Is there anyway imperfect people can come to heaven?” The father said “Yes, there is one way. Jesus, if you go to earth, become a human being, keep your perfect record, then die on a cross, I will make it possible for them to exchange the record of his imperfect soul for the record of your perfect soul”. And Jesus did it. So what does all this mean for you today?