Way of Life Christian Center : Ypsilanti, Michigan

Knowing about God and knowing God personally are two different things. You were created to know God personally and intimately. There is an empty place in each of us that only God can fill. The only thing that separates us from God is sin.

The good news is that God loves you so much that He personally removed the barrier that separated you from Him. He did that by sending His own Son to pay the penalty for our sins by dying on the cross. God proved His power over sin when He raised Jesus from the dead.

God has pursued man from the beginning. Sending Jesus to die for your sins was His idea. He desires to know you intimately. God wants us to live a life filled with His peace, joy, and awesome presence. He has made it very simple for us to have this freedom from sin. Romans 10: 9-10 says “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.” Saved simply means freedom from the bondage of sin. God gives us the power to change and eternal salvation. Sometimes we think that we have to change before we can come to Him. But He will accept you as you are.

Sometimes we think “Well, I am a good person. Why do I need Jesus?” Ephesians 2: 8-9 says, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is a free gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.” We don’t and can’t work our way to heaven. It is only by accepting the free gift of the sacrifice of His Son.

You can accept this free gift today! Right now, you can say to God, “Father, I ask You to forgive me of my sin, I confess that Jesus is Lord and that He was raised from the dead. Please fill me with your presence and joy. I give my life to you and I will turn from going my own way. Help me to live to please you. Thank you for my eternal salvation and for making me a new child of God!”

If you prayed this prayer sincerely and would like one of our Pastors to pray with you, or give you some booklets to bless your new faith, call us at the office, or see us after a church service.


2 Peter 1:2-4 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.	Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.	1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
Mark 11:22-24 Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.	John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.