Our Destiny - Sinning And Getting Saved
Following is a summary of what I was taught growing up in church… When a child dies before reaching the age of accountability, that child goes to heaven. H owever, if the child reaches the age of accountability he is lost and needs to be saved and it is the Church members Great Commission to save the lost. T he lost will be cast into hell upon death to be eternally punished and separated from God and that lost person's blood may be on the hands of a disobedient Church member who failed to tell them. To be saved the lost person must confess and repent of sin, and accept Jesus as his Savior by his own free will before he dies. At that point the person becomes a new creature in Christ and will go immediately to heaven at death. The church further emphasized that if a person is actually saved, he will want to join the Church, be baptized, observe the Lord's Supper, and fellowship primarily with others in the church, and of course, support the ministries o...