There's a lot of bulls— and heresy floating around to a proportion so epic that I am committing my life to keeping it pure and spreading the gospel in it's purest. I'm going to line out everything here.
First off, the Gospel is the good news, but first you have to understand and know the bad news.
The bad news is we're all sinners, by nature and by choice. We are wicked in heart all of the time, we can do no good.
Because we are sinners, we have to receive our just punishment for our sin in hell. You don't wanna go there friend! Hell is hot and the fire is eternal!
However there is good news, which is that God sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ, God incarnate in the flesh, a man born of a virgin mary, who lived a perfect sinless, righteous life, to die on the cross and pay for our sins. This is the free gift of salvation that you receive upon believing the gospel, that Christ died, was buried, and bodily rose again 3 days later and shed his blood on the mercy seat in heaven to complete the blood sacrifice to pay for our sins.
This is all you have to do to be saved!! You only have to believe the gospel! There is nothing you can do to earn your salvation, and in fact, believing you can earn your salvation will put you right in hell! In order to receive salvation you have to believe the gospel in it's 100% pure form. There are a lot of false gospels that are mostly the gospel, but leave out one or two things or add wrong ideas which makes it a FALSE DAMNING GOSPEL!
The truth is, you don't have to do anything besides believe to be saved because there is nothing else you CAN do that will save you! There is this heresy floating around that you must "turn from your sins" to be saved! This is gross heresy! As if wicked humans even had the ability to do so! We do not have the ability to stop sinning! Even our good deeds are considered sins to god! Everything we do is tainted in sin because of our sinful nature!
Which is why good works or turning from sin anything involving human effort is a FALSE GOSPEL.
Jesus christ died on the cross to save us because we have no way to save ourselves. Nothing we do is good enough for God! Our deeds will never get us into heaven! If our deeds could get us into heaven then why did Jesus have to die on the cross to save us! If we could save ourselves then he died for no reason!
This is why you cant be saved without admitting you are a sinner, if you don't believe you are a sinner then you don't believe you need a savior. You have to believe properly in order to trust the right properly, which is trusting what God says that his son died for our sins and only what HE does gets us into heaven, not anything WE do! No man ever got saved who didn't realize he is a sinner who can do nothing to save himself.
So believe on Christ as your savior today! You don't have to stop sinning (as if you could), you don't have to do good deeds (they aren't ever considered good enough for God), you don't have to go to church, you don't have to read the bible (though you most likely will so you can understand all of this more and feel secure in your understanding of the gospel), you don't have to take communion or do sacraments, you dont have to do ANYTHING, nor can you trust anything else to save you!
To anyone who receives this message loud and clear, please let's do what we can in life to spread this to as many as possible. Most people aren't getting saved, but we can increase the numbers by becoming soulwinners!