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Work In Progress exists to be a family of maturing Christ-followers who engage our friends and neighbors in the adventure of following Jesus Christ. Work In Progress in not here to replace or substitute your home church, but to complement it. If your home church doesn’t offer you a place where you are spiritually challenged to grow in your relationship with God and become more like Jesus, to become His disciple in a more palpable way, then I would love you to be part of our WIP Online Bible community. Work In Progress is here to offer you a place to fellowship with others if you are unable to attend a church, or if you don’t have a home church yet, but I would love to encourage you to find a place what you can call your home church. Internet is great source as a complement, but I believe we were made us to interact with others and to work together for God’s glory. I would like this website to be a place where you can grow in your faith and get to know God personally, to learn how to hear from God, how to obey and follow his words and then take what God transforms in you and bring it back to your home church. Work In Progress in not here for different religious beliefs debate. This website is no denomination sided. I believe Jesus died to give us life and to restore the broken relationship between us and the Father. I am confident that Jesus didn’t die to give us a religion, so I will not go into different religious debates and theological explanations. We are here to offer those who want to follow God in a personal and practical way. Work In Progress is a place where I will share what God changed and changes in my life daily. How he opens my eyes to see His heart and His plans for and with my life. I believe when God works in our life he changes us, all the time, if we aloud him. He transforms us from glory to glory so that we will go and tell others too. When I am challenged in my faith, I can be assured that someone else will be too, when I face difficulties, someone else does too, when I am victorious, someone else will walk that path too and God aloud me and you to go through life experiences so that we’ll be able to help others when they go through similar life challenges too. Our world is populated by an estimated 6.5 billion people, is made up of roughly 270 countries and territories, and is home to well over 6,000 known languages. There are many, many cultures and traditions, but one similarity is that there is a hunger for truth. People are seeking spiritual answers to life questions, and they are looking in many different places. As a Christ-centered Bible community I will do my best to create value for our member readers by: Our weekly Bible studies will hopefully help you become the person God made you to be. We are a Work In Progress and God loves you and I just as we are, but he loves us more to just leave us the way we are. He wants to transform us to be more like him, to understand his heart and to do the good things he already prepared for us in advance to do. (Ephesians 2:10) My aim is to offer the freshest and most compelling biblically-based content to Christians who take seriously their relationship with Christ. Work In Progress is built around four primary content areas – Christian Foundations, Christian Living, Community, and Bible Study Tools. Within this framework, I work hard to provide timely, relevant, life-enhancing material from qualified, respected Christian sources. I would love to hear your ideas about how I can improve Work-In-Progress-Online.com. Please don't hesitate to contact me with your suggestion. |
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- God’s Desire
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God desires a personal relationship with us. Understand that God wants to give you a life filed with joy and peace. God wants us to have a life not just to make it through but an abundant and eternal life because he loves you.
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." ~ John 10:10
"We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" ~ Romans 5:1
But to giving you abundant life required the supreme sacrifice:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" ~ John 3:16
What a wonderful gift the Father has given. If God gave His own Son to provide an abundant and everlasting life, why more people don’t have what He has designed for us to receive?
- Our Problem
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We were created in God’s image for an abundant and joyful life with the ability and need to know God and have a personal relationship with Him. But our freedom of choice of disobedience caused a separation and gap between God and us.
"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" ~ Isaiah 59:2
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." ~ Romans 3:23
People always try to fill that empty void in their lives with "things." They even try good works, morality, and religion. Yet they remain empty, for only God, through His Son, can fill that emptiness.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” ~ Proverbs 14:12
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." ~ Romans 6:23
Our Problem is that sin separated us from God. But
God provided only ONE SOLUTION
- God’s Solution
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God has provided only one solution to sin and separation from Himself.
Jesus Christ, His Son, is the only way to God.
Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin and rebellion against God and bridged the gap between God and humanity by dying on the cross, shedding His blood, and rising from the dead to justify and reconcile you back to God the Father.
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." ~ 1Peter 3:18
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." ~ Romans 5:8
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." ~ Ephesians 2:8,9
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" ~ 1Timothy 2:5
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. “~ John 14:6
God so loved us that he gave his only Son to bridge the gap between us and the Father. God has provided the only way, the only solution. You have to take a decision and choose how to respond to God’s provision.
- Our Response
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Your relationship with God can be restored and you can be brought back into his family by trusting in Christ alone who can save your life from destruction. Jesus is the bridge to the Father but you have to choose to trust him, you have to make a step forward him, you have to step out in faith and give your life to God. At the Cross you can exchange your worst for Jesus’ best.
This step happens by asking Jesus Christ to take away your sin and to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior.
The Bible says...
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." ~ Romans 10:9"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." ~ John 1:12
"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." ~ Revelation 3:20
Would you like to invite Jesus to be part of your life, to be your Lord and Savior now? You can start a new life with him. It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from, what you did in the past. When you give your life to Jesus you can start all over again. With Jesus you can have a new chance again.
- Receive Christ
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If you too need Jesus to give you a new start, if you realized that Jesus is all you need then here is how you can receive Christ:
Admit your need (I am a sinner).
Be willing to turn from your sins (repent).
Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the Cross and rose from the grave.
Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit. (Receive Him as Lord and Savior.)At this moment you can pray the most important prayer of your life by simply saying:
Dear Lord Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God. I believe you died for me on the cross and shed Your blood for my salvation. I believe you rose from the dead and ascended in Heaven. I believe You are coming back again to earth. Dear Jesus, I know I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. Forgive my sins. Cleanse me now with Your precious blood. I want to turn from sins. I invite you to come into my heart. I give you my life now. I want to trust and follow You as Lord and Savior. I receive You now as my Savior, my Lord, and my God. I am Yours forever, I belong to You only. I no longer belong to this world, nor to the enemy of my soul. Amen!
If you sincerely prayed this prayer, confessed your sins, and received Jesus Christ into your heart, God has given you the right to become His child.
The Bible gives you this assurance:
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ~ Romans 10:13"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." ~ Ephesians 2:8,9
This is just the beginning of a wonderful new life in Christ. If you have just received Jesus Christ into your life, we want to rejoice with you. Click here to send us your salvation praise report.
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Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference By Max Lucado |
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The Purpose Driven Life, Softcover By Rick Warren |
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The Hole in Our Gospel - Limited Editon By Richard Stearns |
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