I shared the gospel with a bunch of Christian kids last night---

I shared the gospel with a bunch of Christian kids last night.

Their reply?

“We’ve never heard this before.”
“This sounds too good to be true.”

What did I tell them?

I told them that the only thing that God requires of them is to put their faith in what Christ has done to save them; to believe in the One God has sent: Jesus Christ, Son of God.

“That’s all?” one says.
“That’s all,” I reply.

If it were by works or behaving or being nice, then none of us would have a chance. All the ‘rules’ are there to make us realize our sin. The ‘rules’ should make us conscious of sin and how it is impossible to pull them all off. The ‘rules’ cause us to need a Savior; they should make us scream for help—push us towards the cross.

What God requires (perfectly keeping the ‘rules’)—Christ provides.
And our faith in Jesus keeping the ‘rules’ is what saves us.

Read below very carefully---

Ephesians 2:4-10
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Romans 3:11-12
11there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
12All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."[c]

Romans 3:19-28
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement,[i] through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. 28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.