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Billy Graham said it best recently, nothing new, many have said this truth, however this is Billy.. its also what I believe.... I paraphrase

I know I am a Christian and am going to Heaven, NOT because I have preached to many, NOT because I go to Church, NOT because of any good deeds I do, but, only because of The Cross of Christ, what Jesus did for me, shedding his blood on the cross, dying for me

Yes works should follow if it was a genuine conversion when we humbled ourselves and asked Jesus into our lives, asking forgiveness for sins, thanking Him for dying on the Cross for our sins, asking him to Be Lord of our life etc.

To completely turn back on God and go the other way is one thing.

But I believe in once saved always saved before I would believe that our salvation vanishes every time a mistake is made, so if those are my choices I believe once saved always saved.

Now if a person is voting for children to be aborted, for God`s Word to be removed from public square and classroom, for Barack Obama, for Bill Clinton, for John Kerry or Al Gore, or even yes Jimmy Carter, then I think we can ask was that persons conversion to Christ ever sincere or genuine

I certainly challenge

Personally I don’t think Christians should be watching modern sitcoms or movies at all. I think all these things are something to be considered.

Liberals love to quote Scripture such as ...let Him without Sin cast the first stone, they say it as if nothing can be questioned at all, they say Jesus was kind and compassionate, absolutely, but he also says go and sin no more

Now I am a sinner saved by grace nothing more, just a dirty rotten sinner saved by the grace of The Lord Jesus Christ and what he did on the Cross for me, but its NOT judging to say that Christians should not vote to kill Gods unborn children, or should not vote to have Christ/God removed from the Public square

It`s only common sense , if people have no concern for a unborn child, or are fine with teaching children that its OK to be homosexual, then yes I challenge absolutely

Even NON Christians realize that abortion is murder, so I don’t think saying we are deceived is a excuse at all

To become a Christian one needs to ask Jesus into their life, attempt to turn from their sin, when if we sin there is forgiveness

Jesus come into my life, thank you for dying on the cross for me, I turn to you Lord God, from my sins through faith in Christ Jesus, come into my Life Lord Save me...

a prayer along those lines would be a very good start

But at some point we have to reach a point when we are not always falling on our faces from various pleasures of the flesh

A single Christian can have zero sex life. Outside of marriage their is no sex life available for a single Christian (not even self gratification)

A single Christian needs to be celibate

The Bible says nothing shall separate us from the love of God

Romans 8 v38,39

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life ,nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing ,shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

Assuming that our conversion was sincere, that is pretty awesome promise

And Jesus promised to forgive us our sins along the way if we honestly confess and repent

But this idea that salvation can come from works of any kind is from the pit, none of us are good enough by our own merits to be saved, only the blood of Christ, our righteousness is as filthy rags

And I heard a fellow say the other day, and he was preaching, and he said, "isn't it wonderful that you can come to Jesus Christ and you don't have to change anything on the inside or the outside." That's a lie right out of hell. There better be a transformation.

I don't buy into that and I don't believe the author of the bible does either...This fella seems to have some troube with the definition of repentance...

When I came to Jesus, ask for his salvation, I didn't change a thing...I just know some sort of short lived peace came over me...I was in bad shape...Jesus was my very last resort...

The following night I was still in just as bad a shape...Got out and was just riding around looking for a bar to get drunk in...A little bit in the distance I saw the lights of a church...Something told me I needed to be there...That quick...Had no idea of the denomination

I was plenty nervous but parked the truck and thought I could just sneak in without anyone seeing me...

Nope...No such luck...Turned out to be a Pentecostal church...The second I broke the door, there were a dozen people there hugging me and telling me Jesus loves me and that hit a nerve...I needed to know that...

After that, I didn't change a thing...I continued to hit the bars...That's where my friends were...

Wasn't long before I noticed I wasn't ordering alcohol but drinking Coke...I'd still be sober at the end of the night...

That wasn't the first change...The first one was that I found myself with the weirdest desire to look thru a bible...

It wasn't long after that that I started talking to the drunk people in the bars about God...Shortly after that, I lost any desire to go to bars at all...

The point is, when one comes to Jesus, God will make the change within you...

“Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”

Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?

What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”

As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him

Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”

Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”

He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve.” [John 6: 49-71]