I'm not sure why you're asking, but here is one way to put it:
God's plan for His elect -
John 3:16 : "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Our problem -
Rom 3:23 : ... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ...
God's solution -
1 Peter 2:24 : He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Our response -
John 1:12-13 : 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
This is the general idea. When I witness to people I usually ask a lot of questions and tailor my presentation to the answers. The Good News is that first we are all doomed because of sin, but that God loved us so much that anyone who believes in Christ will have eternal life. Salvation is a free gift.
The Good News is that first we are all doomed because of sin, but that God loved us so much that anyone who believes in Christ will have eternal life. Salvation is a free gift.
Very well put; however shouldn’t the Reformed add the caveat that under Reformed theology, anyone cannot believe in Christ. Only the few can. The rest are sent to eternal damnation and they can do precisely nothing about it.
The Good News is that first we are all doomed because of sin, but that God loved us so much that anyone who believes in Christ will have eternal life. Salvation is a free gift.
Anyone, FK? Or for the Reformers, did He bring some bad news too?