First Christian Church--Unionville, MO

The most important thing we do at First Christian Church is help people come to know Jesus Christ as their Personal Lord and Savior. Jesus himself called this being "born again". The Bible teaches that taking this step is the only way to make it into heaven. In fact, the Bible teaches us many things about becoming a Christian.

All Men and Women are Separated From God by Sin

Romans 3:23--For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23--For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Christ Died For You So That You Could Come to God

1 Peter 3:18--For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.
1 Peter 2:24-- And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Romans 5:8--But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Hear

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Believe

Believe that God will forgive because Jesus died for our sins

John 1:12--Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 3:16--For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Acts 16:31--They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household."

Repent

Repentance a change of a heart, mind, and action due to sorrow over our sin.

Acts 2:38--Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 17:30-31--Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.
Luke 13:3--But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Acts 3:19--Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.

Confess

Confession of who Jesus is and what He has done.

Romans 10:9-10--That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Matthew 10:32-33--Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

Be Baptized

Baptism is an immersion into the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is at this point that our sins are forgiven and we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:3-4--Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Acts 2:38--Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Mark 16:16--Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Live Faithfully

Baptism is just the beginning of a new life in which we have made Jesus our Lord. We must be faithful to our new Master.

Revelation 2:10--Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.
1 John 1:8-9--If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

You Can be Assured of Your Salvation

1 John 5:11-13--And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
2 Corinthians 5:17--Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!