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    Becoming a Christian Believer
    Becoming a Christian Believer
    Becoming a Christian Believer
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    Becoming a Christian Believer

    By Brenton Williams

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    This book is to help you understand what Jesus did on the cross.
    It has answers for you.
    It tells how Jesus’ death and resurrection made a way for people to know God again.
    It explains how to activate God’s answer to the sin problem in your life.
    Complex truths are simply explained.
    This book will help anyone become a believer and move on to spiritual maturity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenton Williams
    Release dateJun 28, 2015
    ISBN9780473315689
    Becoming a Christian Believer
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    Brenton Williams

    Brenton Williams was born in 1947 to non-christian parents and, apart from attending a local Sunday School, had no Christian faith or beliefs.He met his wife, Coral, in 1970 who was a member of The Salvation Army and converted that year. He joined The Salvation Army as a member and in 1975 felt a call from God to full-time ministry. He and his wife trained and became Salvation Army Officers for 11 years moving around New Zealand to various posts.His search for truth led him to question some of the tenets of the Army and in 1984 he left The Salvation Army to start a small charismatic group where he still ministers today.The truths in his books are based on first-hand experience and a desire to discover a real and true faith. Central to that is a close and intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ. His heart desire is to help other believers come to know Jesus as a friend and lover and thereby prepare them for an eternity of wedded bliss with their chosen bridegroom.

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      Becoming a Christian Believer - Brenton Williams

      Becoming a Christian Believer

      Brenton Williams

      Copyright © 2015 Brenton Williams

      All rights reserved.

      Distributed by Smashwords

      All rights reserved, including translation. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means, electronic, mechanical, electrostatic photocopying or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior permission of Brenton Williams.

      Published by Brenton Williams,

      6 King Street,

      Petone,

      Wellington 5012,

      New Zealand.

      Unless otherwise stated, scriptures are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishers. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Edited by Paul Corrigan's Editing Works!

      Cover artwork by Stephan Jurczenko

      Ebook formatting by www.ebooklaunch.com

      ISBN: 978-0-473-31568-9

      Table of contents

      Introduction

      1. Back to the beginning

      2. The power behind sins

      3. The need for blood

      4. The steps to freedom

      5. A new law

      6. A new heart and mind

      7. Joining a church

      8. Reading the bible

      9. Relationships

      10. Final thoughts

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      Introduction

      To be reading this booklet you must have responded to the message of salvation or be seriously interested in finding out what that message has to do with your life.

      What is God offering?

      What is salvation?

      How can I be saved?

      Why should I be saved?

      What does it all mean?

      This book answers some of those questions. It isn't an exhaustive study. Rather it tries to explain complex truths simply.

      What is salvation? Simply, it is an exchange — one life for another. Our natural life is full of things that don't please God and are no good to us.

      God offers us a new life free from those things.

      The old life is full of sin and selfishness. It has no fellowship with God.

      The new life is free from those things and knows God as a father and Jesus as a friend.

      It is much more than merely forgiveness of sins and a ticket to heaven.

      We will explore how we became sinful and what God has done to remedy that. We will see how we exchange our old, sinful life for a fresh start without sins or sinfulness.

      Finally, we will look at what we need to do to maintain and develop our new life until we become mature believers.

      I hope that by the end of the booklet you will not only understand what salvation is but will know how to gain it and maintain it.

      So, let’s go.

      Chapter 1

      Back to the beginning

      To understand what happened at the cross we need to go back to the very beginning of everything.

      The Bible opens with this statement: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ [Genesis 1:1]

      That sentence covers billions of years. Nothing existed in this realm and then God unleashed his creating ability. Scientists now refer to that event as the Big Bang. In an infinitesimal amount of time the universe began. A much longer time later the earth formed.

      Before we go any further we need to understand the difference between the Bible and scientific truth.

      Science exists to discover how things happen and what can be done with those discoveries.

      The Bible isn’t interested in how things happen — it’s not a scientific textbook. Its focus is why things happen — it’s a spiritual textbook.

      That explains why what science discovers and the Bible portrays is often different.

      Science isn’t interested in why. It only wants to find out how. The Bible isn’t interested in how. Its

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