The Message of Salvation
What does true salvation look like in the life of a believer? That's a question so many christians have as they look around their churches and the world at so many people claiming to love God, yet their lives say otherwise.
Here is a Doctrinal Paper from New Community Church that lays out the truth in scripture, that there can be no such thing as "Salvation" that doesn't change our life dramatically. Little by little, day by day; if true salvation has taken place we will never be the same or remain the same. Sanctification that begins at the point of salvation continues until we meet the Lord "face to face".
Is There Such a Thing as a Changeless Conversion
Pastor Jerry Marshall, Approved by all Elders
1. By the grace, mercy, and love of God, you are made alive in
Christ Jesus at the point of your conversion.
1675 Ephesians 2:1–5; 1688 Colossians 2:13
2.
You are “Born Again,” or born from above at the point of your conversion.
1737 1 Peter 1:3; 1731 James 1:18
3.
You pass from spiritual death to spiritual life when you are converted.
1530 John 5:24
4.
The Holy Spirit takes up residence within you at the point of your conversion.
1621 Romans 8:9; 1674 Ephesians 1:13–14; 1654 2 Corinthians
1:21-22
5.
Your destiny is made certain because of the down payment of the indwelling Holy
Spirit when you are converted.
1674 Ephesians 1:13-14
1646 1 Corinthians 12:13
7.
The Holy Spirit imparts spiritual gifts to you for the building up of the Body
of Christ.
1645 1 Corinthians 12:7–11
Spiritual
gifts are never given to us for personal edification. They are Spirit given
abilities granted to us in order that we might serve others as we serve the
Lord.
1671 Galatians 5:13
8.
You are set free from the eternal condemnation of sin when you are converted.
1620 Romans 8:1
9.
You are made right standing with a Holy God, (Justified) when you are
converted.
1617 Romans 5:1; 1668 Galatians 2:16
10.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is imputed to you when we are converted.
1657 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1613 Romans 1:16-17
Self-righteousness
is unacceptable to a holy God because I is always marred by our sinfulness.
1579 Acts 10:43
11.
your past, present and future sins are forgiven when you are truly converted.
1687 1688 Colossians 1:14; 1688 Colossians 2:13; 1738 1 Peter 2:24
12.
You are made a new creation when you are converted. Those thoughts, practices,
and values of your old life pass away, and those that are indicative of new
life in Christ come.
1655 2 Corinthians 5:17
13.
You are redeemed when you are converted.
1737 1 Peter 1:18–19;
14. You are adopted into the family of God when you are
converted.
1621 Romans 8:15; 1675
Ephesians 2:11–22
15.
You are now in the world but not of it because you have been converted.
1553 John 17:14–16; 1627 Romans 12:2; 1733 James 4:4; 1747 1
John 2:15–17
16.
Your sin debt is fully satisfied by the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ
when you are truly converted.
1749 1 John 4:9
17.
You are now alive to righteousness and dead to sin when you are truly
converted.
1738 1 Peter 2:24
18.
You practice righteousness and not sin when you are truly converted.
1748 1 John 2:29; 1748 1 John 3:4-10
19.
You are children of God and no longer the children of the Devil when you are
converted.
1738 1 John 3:10
20.
Your heart is made morally pure when you are converted.
1587 Acts 15:7–9
21.
You are liberated from the condemnation of the Law when you are converted.
1621 Romans 8:1–4
22.
Your mind-set (worldview) is shaped by the Holy Spirit through the vehicle of
God’s Word and not by the desires of the flesh when you are truly converted.
1621 Romans 8:5–8
23.
Sin no longer is your master when you are truly converted.
1619 Romans 6:14
24.
You have switched masters when you are truly converted.
1619 Romans 6:20–23
25.
You presently possess eternal life and will one day enter into the fullness of
eternal life in the presence of the Lord when you are truly converted.
1526 John 3:16; 1527 John 3:36; 1559 John 20:31; 1619 Romans
6:23
26.
Your old-self is crucified with Christ in order that you might be freed from
sin and enabled to walk in newness of life when you are truly converted.
1619 Romans 6:6–7; 1672 Galatians 5:24–25
27.
You are “In Christ” because you are converted.
1673 Ephesians 1:7–13
28.
You are “Complete in Christ” because you are converted.
1688 Colossians 2:10
29.
You have been chosen by God for salvation and; that is why you have been
converted.
1673 Ephesians 1:4; 1697 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14
30.
You set aside your former manner of life and you put on the new self when you
are converted.
1677 Ephesians 4:17–24; 1737 1 Peter 1:13–16
31.
You love your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ when you are truly
converted.
1749 1 John 3:14
32.
You have been reconciled to a holy God when you are converted.
1657 2 Corinthians
5:18-19 , 1687 Colossians 1:22
33. You have been rescued from the
domain of darkness, and transferred to the kingdom of God’s beloved son when
you are converted.
1686 Colossians
1:13
34.
You overcome the world with your faith when you are converted.
1750 1 John
5:4–5
35.
You have been set apart to God and from this fallen world. That is why you are
described as “Saints.” A saint is not someone who has been canonized by the
church. A saint is one who has been miraculously converted and set apart by
God.
1633 1 Corinthians
1:2, 1612 Romans 1:7
36.
You are glorified in Christ and will enter into that glory in the eternal state
because of your conversion.
1622 Romans 8:28–30
37.
You are able to live a life of increasing holiness in conformity to the will of
God, becoming more and more like our Lord Jesus Christ because you are
converted.
1553 John 17:17; 1553 John 17:19; 1618 Romans 6:1–22; 1656 2
Corinthians 3:18; 1693 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1693 1 Thessalonians 4:4; 1695 1 Thessalonians
5:23
38.
You have a guaranteed spiritual inheritance that is reserved in heaven for you
because you are converted.
1736 1 Peter 1:3–4
39.
You have been made eternally secure because you are converted to Christ.
1530 John 5:24; 1532 John 6:37–40; 1541 John 10:27–30; 1618 Romans
5:9; 1618 Romans 5:10; 1622 Romans 8:31–39; 1633 1 Corinthians 1:4–9; 1677 Ephesians
4:30; 1720 Hebrews 7:25; 1728 Hebrews 13:5; 1736 1 Peter 1:4; 1736 1 Peter 1:5;
1757 Jude 24
40.
You experience conflict with the flesh when you are converted.
1671 Galatians 5:16–17; 1620 Romans 7:14–25
