Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

No church can save you.  The church are the people who have been saved, born again by the Spirit of God.
 
We are saved by The Word of God.  When God speaks to us giving us the Word, we are then born again by that Word, saved.
 
Acts 2:47  And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
 
Acts 13:48  and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
 
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I went forward at my aunt's church (Church of Christ) when I was 15 and was baptized in water.  But I was not born again by the Spirit of God.  I didn't want to go to hell so I did what that church group said to do.  Nothing at all changed inside me.  I continued pursuing my own ambitions.  I rarely thought of God at all.
 
On August 5, 1975, I was reading a book about sin, when God spoke to me and said:  "Joan ... you know all those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those where sins."
 
SINS ... I was so shocked!
 
And with that Word of God, I was born again.
 
2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
I was changed immediately, given the Holy Spirit of God to live inside me and to teach me and guide me.
 
The New Covenant Church:
 
Ezekiel 36  (God says)
 
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
 
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
 
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
 
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.


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Pam Padgett was raised in the Catholic church.  One of her classmates was killed on a motorcycle.  This is the first time Pam knew a person her age could die.
 
The following concept came into her heart:  My only hope is God.  Nothing I can do and nothing I learned in the Catholic church can save me.
 
She knew she would go to hell if she died at that time.  She was terrified and cried out to God.
 
"If there is any way you can save me, please save me.  YOU are my only hope!"
 
After praying that, she knew there was something of God in her.  It was years before she saw a scripture showing her what it was of God that was in her.
 
1 Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
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John 1
 
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
 
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
 
3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made.
 
4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.
 
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
 
10 HE was in the world, and the world was made by HIM, and the world knew HIM not.
 
11 HE came unto HIS own, and HIS own received HIM not.
 
12 But as many as received HIM, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on HIS name:
 
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
 
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld HIS glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
 
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