Page 15 - Churchy But Not Godly

I knew even before I started attending

church and seeking a relationship with God

that God was a holy God. I would have been

shocked and probably would not have

returned to the church that I was saved in if

I walked into the same kind of atmosphere

that I was so familiar with out in the world.

When I heard the preaching of the cross, my

heart responded in love for God because of

His love for me in sending His Son to suffer

and die on a Roman cross in order to pay the

penalty for my sins, that penalty being an

eternity in Hell. I realized that the penalty

could be paid in no other way and by no

other person, and that realization brought

sorrow to my heart for my sins with a desire

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