A summary of the four spiritual laws follows.
1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. (See
John 3:16;John 10:10).
2. Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know
and experience God’s love and plan for his life. (See Romans 3:23; 6:23 ).
3. Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin. Through Him
you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life. (See Romans
5:8;1 Corinthians 15:3-6; John 14:6 ).
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord;
then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives. (See John 1:12;
Ephesians 2:8,9; John 3:1-8; Revelation 3:20 ).
The Four Spiritual Laws Tract then explains that receiving Jesus
means allowing him to take charge of one’s life—to allow Jesus to sit on the
“throne” governing one’s life, rather than a person being in charge of their
own life.
If a listener is willing, the evangelist leads the listener to
pray to receive Christ.
A suggested prayer from the
Four Spiritual Laws tract is:
“Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my
sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank
You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the
throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.”
The Four Spiritual Laws show the elements generally presented in
various tracts showing the plan of salvation.
4. Romans Road to Salvation.
Another way to present the plan of salvation is the Romans Road.
A summary of the Romans Road to salvation using Scripture from the
New International Version of the Bible follows.
Romans 3:23. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God.
Romans 6:23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 10:9,10,13.
9 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.
10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,
and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. . . .
13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
An easy way to remember the location of these verses of the Romans
Road is to memorize the first reference: Romans 3:23. Double the chapter number
3 and you have Romans 6:23. Then memorize the reference: Romans 5:8. Double the
chapter number and you have Romans 10. This helps you to remember Romans 10:9,10,13.
Know these four Scripture references and you can use the Bible to lead a person
to salvation.
After sharing Romans 10:13 with a listener, ask him if he would
like to pray with you to receive eternal life with Christ. If he agrees, you
may choose to allow the listener to repeat a prayer after you—one sentence or
one phrase at a time. Then say the prayer, keeping the sentences short and
simple.
The Romans Road also includes some Scripture showing the results
of salvation—having peace with God and having the security of a believer (see Romans
5:1; 8:1,38,39). (For
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