I will relay what God Himself would have you do from His own Word. That is the best place to start in my opinion.
Faith, Baptism, and Obedience should be your first three points of focus and meditation on this journey.
SolarCross wrote:I do repent but I don't quite know how to accept Christ into my heart, I am sorry to say. Mere Christianity does sound like a good book from its wiki page I'll give it a go. Thanks.
"if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 10:9Christians do not believe this is a joke, its not a myth, its not false or fictional. We believe and Confess Christ and Him Crucified and His Resurrection. The Apostles Creed and The Nicene Creed are the Confessions accepted by all true Christians.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bibles ... reeds.htmlYet also remember that Faith without works is dead and that the life of True Faith requires obedience to commandments of God. Properly understanding the Ten Commandments is very important in this regard.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
(James 2:1-19) “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
(Matthew 5:17-19)Also you must be baptized in the name of the Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit in a Confessional and Theologically Orthodox church. If you want my opinion as to what this includes, please let me know.
Realize that Christianity calls a man to reject the wickedness of false religions and ideologies and that all things are to be brought subject to Christ and His authority.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, (Ephesians 4:4-5)God's works in baptism to change a man and the baptism itself represents your union with Christ and your call to a changed life of obedience to His Word and Laws. You are no longer merely a citizen of the City of Man, but of the City of God.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:1-4I also agree with others on here that C.S. Lewis's
Mere Christianity is a very good place to start.