Q. What is sin?

A. "The underlying idea of sin is that of law and of a lawgiver. The lawgiver is God. Hence sin is everything in the disposition and purpose and conduct of God's moral creatures that is contrary to the expressed will of God (Rom. 3:20; 4:15, 7:7; James 4:12,17)." - Unger's Bible Dictionary

Q. What is the Gospel?

A. "The good news of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as provided by our Lord and preached by His disciples (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). The gospel then is full and free deliverance from sin on the basis of simple faith in Jesus Christ, the Vicarious Sinbearer (Eph. 2:8-10)." - Unger's Bible Dictionary

Q. What is grace?

A. "It is undeserved favor bestowed upon those who are positively deserving of the wrath of God." - Dictionary of Theological Terms.

Q. What must one do to be saved?

A. "To the question: "What must I do to be saved?" we must answer: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). What does this mean? It means:

1. Knowing oneself to be a sinner.

2. Knowing Christ to have died for sinners.

3. Abandoning all self-righteousness, self-confidence, and self-effort.

4. Casting yourself wholly upon Him for pardon and peace.

5. Exchanging your natural enmity and rebellion against Him for a spirit of grateful submission to the will of Christ through the renewing of your heart by the Holy Spirit. - Earnest Reisinger

Q.Who will go to Heaven?

A. "No one has ever been admitted to heaven in his sins; nor is it desirable that any one ever should be. Desirable as it is that lost men should be happy, yet it is benevolence which excludes the profane, the impious, and the unbelieving from heaven—just as it is benevolence to a family to exclude profligates and seducers, and as it is benevolence to a community to confine thieves and robbers in prison. This great principle in the Divine administration will always be adhered to; and hence they who are expecting to be saved without holiness or religion are destined to certain disappointment. Heaven and earth will pass away, but God will not admit one unrepenting and unpardoned sinner to heaven." - Barnes Notes on Heb.12:14

A. Those who have placed their faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ, to save them from their sins. His finished work on Calvary's cross is the sole reason why anyone will inherit heaven. While God desires His people to lead holy lives, they will not be saved because of their works, but solely by the grace of God, (Eph. 2:8-9).

Q.Who is a Christian?

A. "Let us thank God that there are not a few to be found in every part of Christendom, who really are what they profess to be—true, sincere, earnest-minded, hearty, converted, believing Christians. Some of them, no doubt, belong to churches in which their souls get little help. Some of them have very imperfect knowledge, and hold the truth in its vitals, with a mixture of many defective views.

But they all have certain common marks about them:

They see the value of their souls
—and really want to be saved.

They feel the sinfulness of sin—and hate it,
and fight with it, and long to be free from it.

They see that Jesus Christ alone can save
them—and they trust only in Him.

They see that they ought to live holy and godly
lives—and in their poor way they try to do it.

They love their Bibles, and they pray, though both
their reading and their praying are very defective.

Some of them, in short, are in the highest grade of
Christ's school, and are strong in knowledge, faith,
and love. Others are only in the infant's class, and
in everything are weak and poor.

But in one point they are all one. Their hearts are
right in the sight of God; they love Christ; their faces
are set towards heaven, and they want to go there!"

- J.C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)

"A French philosopher who visited our shores when America was a new young nation left a similar warning. Alexis De Tocqueville said he came to the United States to learn what magic quality enabled a handful of people to defeat the mighty British Empire twice in 35 years. He looked for the greatness of America in her harbors and rivers, her fertile fields and boundless forests, mines and other natural resources. He studied America's schools, her Congress, and her matchless Constitution without comprehending America's power. Not, until he went into the churches of America and heard pulpits "aflame with righteousness" did he understand the secret of her genius and strength. De Tocqueville returned to France and wrote: "America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
- John Stormer, Death of a Nation, pp.20-21

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
- Patrick Henry, Statesman and Orator

"Never forget Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're practical people. Like others, I've marvelled at your factories, your skyscapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people."
- General Romulo, General of the Philippines.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensible supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
- George Washington, 1st U.S. President

"While we give praise to God, the supreme disposer of all events, for His interposition on our behalf, let us guard against the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh…If your case is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts."
- John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Oh Lord, Thou hast told us how to pray. Help us to shut the door, shutting out the world, and the enemy and any fear or doubt which spoils prayer. May there be no distance between our souls and Thee."
- John Wanamaker, American Merchant and U.S. Postmaster General from 1889-93

"We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillement of God's will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands"
- Harry Truman, 33rd President

"Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while one ascends the other descends".
- Mary Hopkins, U.S. educator

"God would graciously pour out His Holy Spirit on us to bring us to a thorough Repentance and effectual Reformation that our iniquities may not be our ruin; that He would restore, preserve and secure the Liberties of this and all the other British American colonies, and make the Land a mountain of Holiness, and Habitation of Righteousness forever."
- Jonathan Trumbell, American Poet

"I pray Heaven bestow the best of blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
- John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

"I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world…that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established."
- Samuel Adams, American Revolutionist and signer of the Decaration of Independence

"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson", American author

"Remember that God is our only sure trust."
- Mary Washington, wife of George Washington

"America was founded by people who believe[d] that God was their Rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side."
- Ronald Reagan, 40th President

"Remember ever; and always, that your country was founded…by the stern old Puritans who made the deck of the Mayflower an altar of the living God, and whose first act on touching the soil of the new world was to offer on bended knees thanksgiving to Almighty God."
- Henry Wilson, 18th Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant

"There are good many problems before the American people today, and before me as President, but I expect to find the solution to those problems just in the proportion that I am faithful in the study of the Word of God."
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President

"If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear up temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and the love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity."
- Daniel Webster, American politician

"We think it is imcumbent upon this people to humble themselves before God on account of their sins…[And] also to implore the Divine Blessing upon us, that by the assistance of His grace, we may be enabled to reform whatever is amiss among us, that so God may be pleased to continue to us the blessings we enjoy."
- John Hancock, American Revolutionist, and signer of the Declaration of Independence

"The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America….Our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal."
- Ronald Reagan, 40th President