• Accepts the call of Jesus Christ, just as He called His 12 disciples to "...follow Me...", the believer is called by Jesus Christ to follow Him also:
  Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."
  The Holy Bible, Matthew 16:24-25 (NAS)
  
  
• Accepts the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
  Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age."
  The Holy Bible, Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV)
  
  
• Accepts all that Jesus Christ taught and commanded in relation to Himself, God, the Bible (Scripture), man and salvation.
  We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. The man who says, "I know Him," but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in Him. This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.
  The Holy Bible, 1 John 2:3-6 (NIV)

• Accepts the fact that man is separated from God because of sin and cannot know, love or please God on any level:
  But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
  The Holy Bible, Isaiah 59:2 (NIV)
  
  If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
  The Holy Bible, 1 John 1:8 (NIV)
  
  
• Accepts the fact that the penalty for sinful action is spiritual death and the judgment of God, resulting in an eternity without God in hell:
  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  The Holy Bible, Romans 6:23 (NIV)
  
  
• Accepts the fact that repenting to God, in grief and sorrow for having sinned against Him by not giving Him glory and offending Him by disobeying His commands, is necessary to obtain salvation:
  ... yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
  The Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 (NIV)
  
  
• Accepts the fact that exercising faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, as to his ability to forgive sin, is necessary to obtain salvation. Because the death of Jesus Christ paid the penalty for sin, and that His resurrection from the dead guaranteed God's acceptance of His payment, Jesus Christ is the object of the faith of the Christian:
  But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart", that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
  The Holy Bible, Romans 10:8-10
  
  

• Accepts the fact that only in the name of Jesus Christ can salvation be granted.
  Jesus said to him. "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
  The Holy Bible, John 14:6 (NAS)
  
  And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.
  The Holy Bible, Acts 4:12 (NAS)
  
  

• Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
  The Holy Bible, Psalm 51:10 (NIV)
  
  
• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has one, the new has come!
  The Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
  
  

• For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  The Holy Bible, Romans 8:38-39
  
  
• These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
  The Holy Bible, 1 John 5:13
  
  

• Christians are people from all walks of life, from every nation and from every period of time since the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• Christians are not perfect and do not claim to be perfect.
• Christians do not claim that they do not make mistakes or that sin has been eradicated in their lives.
• Christians are on a journey in this life; a quest to know and be like Jesus Christ as much as is possible.
• The journey is difficult, filled with troubles and failures - but in those troubles and failures, the Christian realizes how far from the character of Jesus Christ they are, and how much they must depend on their faith and the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives to bring about conformity to the image of Christ that is commanded in the Scripture.

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things - and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him. It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 1:26-30 (NIV)