Hello Everyone. I was wondering if you could help me with a project I am putting together. I need as many people as I can to help me. Could you ask everyone you know if they minded to answer these questions also on this subject? I need to know:
1. How long have you been serving God?
2. What does it mean to you to be saved?
3. What is something big God has done for you?
4. Can you briefly tell me what our Lord Jesus Christ means to you?
5. How can a person in your opinion that feels like there is no God find God & be saved?
I am putting all the answers I can get together & making a little book of inspiration to give to people like in the nursing homes,the lonely,the lost & so forth. I appreciate your much needed help. Please ask everyone to help ! You can send me the answers on here or through my email. Thank you & God bless ! I had to re ask this cause they deleted the first 1 I asked cause I included my email---Sorry Yahoo !!!
2007-03-15 17:14:53 · 10 answers · asked by דְבוֹרָה Devorah 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1. I have been serving God since I can remember. I was thankfully raised in a home where learning about God was important. I was blessed to have the parents that I have. It hasn't been for about the last 4 years that I have really began to examine my Christian path and venture out to find my own calling. It was 4 or 5 years ago that I began a new path to Chrsit, so to speak, that renewed my faith in Him and renewed my calling to become holy (set apart) like God.
2. I don't really like the term "saved" because it suggests that it is a final term. I think it is a process. Everyday we have to choose to follow God or not. I view it as giving my life to Christ. My life is his life. I view it as denying myself and follow His will rather than my own. John 3:16 talks of eternal life; however, the author actually was saying that eternal life starts now. Being saved means to methat I have eternal life NOW.
3. God has done so many big things for me. I remember a year ago when I went on a Christian retreat called Emmaus. It's a wonderful experience. It was one of the first times that I truly felt loved by God. I have been laughed at, picked on, poked at, abused by men in relationships, and other things throughout my life that I had such a skewed view of real love. Finally I experienced that true love, and I was able to be at peace. There's nothing bigger than that.
4. Christ is just that--Christ. The annointed one. The Messiah. The Savior. The lamb of God. The light of the world. Jesus is God in the flesh. He is my best friend and always there when I need to talk. He is my comforter, my friend, my savior. He knows when I am in pain and he has experienced that pain because in the Bible we have records of Christ being angry, happy, joyful, sad, and everything in between. The best way that I can put it is that to me, Jesus is real.
5. Someone that believes there is no God must have an experience with God in order to come to know him. They must have scripture revealed to them by the holy spirit, or they must be able to feel the presence of God. Simply talking to them and saying "there is a god" really will do little good.
2007-03-16 07:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by One Odd Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. How long have you been serving God?
I've been born again 20 years this Easter!
2. What does it mean to you to be saved?
God told me I have an assurance of salvation in Christ Jesus. I'll be going to heaven and living there with him forever. Wow.
3. What is something big God has done for you?
What hasn't He done? He saved my life both physically and spiritually. He's showed me what true love is. He's given me 3 beautiful children, a faithful husband and satisfaction.
4. Can you briefly tell me what our Lord Jesus Christ means to you?
Jesus is everything. He is love. Without Him there is no hope of salvation.
5. How can a person in your opinion that feels like there is no God find God & be saved?
We can only pray for those who are unsaved. We can love them and witness to them, but ultimately it's up to God to call them and them to answer Him.
2007-03-16 00:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. I never have, and never will, serve something that does not prove they exist to me.
2. save (v.) when someone throws you a life preserver after you fell off a boat. (see also: don't fall off boats)
3. Nothing. The fine EXISTENT people of this great green Earth have done everything for me. Nothing has ever been done to me that couldn't be explained by good timing or good connections.
4. I do not believe he is "our" Lord. If you want to get specific, he actually belonged to the Persians long before the Christians superimposed these beliefs onto their own. See also: Mithra, God of the Sun (who was born to a virgin as Magi visited, was crucified, died, and ressurected 3 days later from a cave... all before Jesus did... suspicious?)
5. Stop bothering them. To them, YOU are the one who needs to be saved of ignorance. If God shows himself to these people, then maybe they might join your cult. But until then, manipulating them to think just like you is not a good (or polite) idea.
Hope this is inspirational enough for your little book. I'm sure the elderly will love it. Maybe next time specify what religion, exactly, you are looking for answers from.
2007-03-16 00:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by dmlk2 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I started serving God about 9 years ago
I was saved at the point that I accepted that I had a creator and had to choose to follow him or the devil. We all serve something, we just get to choose what.
The biggest thing God has ever done for me was reveal himself to me.
Jesus Christ means that I do not have to pay the sin debt for my disobedience to God. I am more than thankful for this sacrifice.
A person that feels that there is no God has chosen to reject God. . God gives many opportunities to all of us (all are invited, few are chosen) , we either accept it or reject it. The book of Romans explains this much better than I can.
2007-03-16 00:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you for real? First off you asked for everyone's help and you should have specified "christians only" . I am pagan and will not help you spread your religion. Also, how in the heck can those questions inspire ppl? They're horrible. If you gave me a booklet with the answers to those questions in it I would toss it in the nearest trash can. If you want to be inspiring...do so...with your own words and scripture that is meaningful to the elderly, the lonely and so forth.
Oopps, dang it....I just helped you.....oh well. I think you mean well.
2007-03-16 00:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by Medusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Since the day I was born ( it was all part of the plan).
2. I don't like the term 'saved'. To me, everyone is going to God when they die. They serve their purpose and then they go Home.
3. God does big things for me every day.
4. This is a hard question to answer, but he has showed me that my beliefs are correct. He stated that he was on this earth for his purpose.
5. It doesn't matter if they believe in God or not, He believes in them. God takes everyone Home in the end - even if they don't believe it.
2007-03-16 00:20:17 · answer #6 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1. I'm still not totally. Lots of faults
2. Not sure I am, will have to wait for Judgement day but I'm not holding my breath (it tends to make one blue and pass out)
3. Let me keep my hands and arms
4. A way of living I can't quite follow but strive to
5. By living a good life and being a nice person, they don't have to find anything but the will to be good and nice
2007-03-16 00:22:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Never
2. One day I will live in a world free of religion
3. Annoyed me
4. Lies, stupidity, stubborness
5. Saved from what? Religious fanatics?
2007-03-16 00:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
just another proselytizer.
why cant you just go to the nursing home and >>AND JUST BE NICE TO THEM<< and not ram your religion down there throats.
that what jesus would do!!!!!!
2007-03-16 00:34:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think I understand what you are trying to do, but please give your book only to those that are Christian, preserve the kindness by not making it about saving anyone. Thanks.
2007-03-16 00:21:27 · answer #10 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋