Who is God?

How do I become a Christian?

Do you have to be a believer? Do you have to behave differently? Do you have to be baptized? Are there certain rituals for becoming a Christian? How do you know if you're a Christian?

The questions can be many when faith and the supernatural are a new life experience.

As a Christian, God becomes a personal relationship

‎Becoming a Christian means, as its name suggests, that one recognizes that there is a God - not just one or many different gods but that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He rose from the dead after having died on a cross about 2000 years ago and that He is alive today.

Becoming a Christian can be done without having read the whole Bible or becoming a theologian. But it can't be done without God having called you!‎

Christianity is a faith where God himself addresses the individual. Not necessarily with an audible voice, but for example through other people, a book, a crisis, a broadcast and in many other ways - whichever way, the individual person has a feeling that God calls them to faith and to follow (read, for example, the New Testament Romans 10:17).

Jesus says that

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them."

‎Faith is therefore always a response and reaction to God's personal calling.‎

These kinds of call experiences vary in intensity from peaceful to overwhelming and can be experienced differently from individual to individual. The hallmark of such experiences, however, is the same: I cannot escape the impression that God wants a personal relationship with me, no matter how God's invitation is perceived as either very weak, fragile, unclear or very strong and clear... the decisive thing is the feeling: God is calling me!

This process often takes some time before you realize the calling of God and are ready to respond.
When the individual is ready and wants to respond to God's call and invitation, NO more is needed than an inner YES and a verbal confession that JESUS CHRIST is God's resurrected Son and Lord over all.

Paul says the following to the church in Rome at the time:

"For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved."

When a person answers YES to God's call and believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came to reconcile us with God, God acts in us and gives us a new heart.
‎God conveys it thus through the Prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament:

"I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands."

The "new heart" is God's gift to everyone who says YES to Jesus being LORD. It is a supernatural act on the part of God. One cannot deserve it or do anything other than consciously receive the gift God has for us.

When you receive the new life, as the Bible also calls it, you become part of God's family (His church). It is the start of a natural and at the same time supernatural life, as the Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) takes up residence in the individual person. God is now near, close and involved in everyday life, with all the heavenly resources available to live a life where you know you are loved by God.

‎Once one has come to personal faith in Christ Jesus, the next step will be to be baptized.‎
Baptism is a public confession and a sign that I have consecrated my life to Jesus - I believe in Him and He HAS given me new life. At the same time, baptism is a spiritual reality, and it illustrates that the old life is over and something new has come into being.

When you have become a Christian, your goal becomes to live in a personal relationship with God, where God's presence becomes part of everyday life and where His presence changes our view of ourselves, of the others around us, of God and of this world.

God has created us in His image and to reflect His being. It becomes more and more natural to us, the better we get to know His grace, truth and goodness!

We hope you have become more interested in getting closer to God. Please contact us if you need to speak to someone.