We believe that none of us are good enough for God. We've all done stuff to let ourselves down and our standards are far lower than God's, so realistically none of us can claim to have lived lives pleasing to God.  Living our own way and not acknowledging God in everything we do is the what the Bible calls 'sin' (and you thought that word just applied to murderers and child-abusers). But actually we've all fallen short of God and are therefore sinners.  The Bible says that the just punishment of sin is death, and therefore as sinners we all deserve to face God's anger for and eternal condemnation.

All pretty depressing so far! However, the reason that Christians are so weird and excited at times, is because of what we believe Jesus did for us! None of us can please or impress God, because only perfection is pleasing to Him, but Jesus (God's own son - fully man and fully God) came and lived a perfect life in our place and because of what He has done for us, God can look upon us as perfect, because Jesus did it for us! We didn't deserve it. God sent Jesus simply because He loves us and knew we'd never make it alone and Jesus offers us eternal life, so that we needn't fear death!

For a more detailed explanation check out:

  http://www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/

 If you're still baffled, provoked or in raging disagreement, please get in contact with us. We'd love to try and chat with you more, let you know about local churches, or you could come on the next "fresh thinking" course, designed to help non-christians explore Christianity (see What's On page).