Are you confused about Christianity and other religions? Do you feel an emptiness in your heart that you can't quite explain? Well, think of it this way: Religion is spelled D-O. It consists of trying to do enough good things to somehow please God, earn his forgiveness, and gain entrance into heaven. This self-effort plan can take on many forms, from trying to be a good, moral person, to becoming an active participant in any organized religion. The problem is, we can never know when we have done enough. Even worse, the Bible makes it clear that we can never do enough. Simply put, the D-O plan cannot bring us peace with God, or even peace with ourselves.

    Christianity, however, is spelled D-O-N-E. In other words, that which we could never do for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. He lived the perfect life we could never live, and he died on the cross to pay for each of our wrong-doings. And now he freely offers us his gift of forgiveness and leadership for our lives. But, it's not enough just to know this, we have to humbly receive what he has done for us. And we do that by asking for his forgiveness and leadership in our lives. The whole gospel story, the whole point of Do vs. Done is shown here from the book of Romans in the Bible, an illustration known as the "Roman Road to Salvation." Read it and think about it. Does it make sense to you? What do you think about it? Are you willing to turn your life over to Jesus Christ?

Romans 3

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

 

Romans 3

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

 Romans 5

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 5

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 10

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

 Romans 10

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.