Knowing Jesus Christ personally is the greatest adventure that man can experience

1. Read the Bible or listen to a tape or cassette for six consecutive days. Educational research has shown that it is necessary to read or listen to a concept six to ten times to fully understand it (INTERNALIZE). As you apply the principles presented in this concept, the joy of experiencing clean living will become a way of life for you. A deep understanding of this concept will allow you to communicate it more effectively to others.
2. Memorize the following verses and references; John 10:10b ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full’; 1 John 1:9 ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’

Your memory work will be easier and longer lasting if you review it daily throughout the week rather than trying to complete it all in one day. Also, review the memorized verses with previous concepts.

3. Study the questions taught. Before answering any question, you must first understand the question.
4. Participate in a group discussion, using the questions taught. If you are not already part of a Bible study or action group studying transferable concepts, you can start your own group by inviting others to join you in this study program. As you discuss the reflection questions, share what God is teaching you about his love and forgiveness and share ideas about how you plan to apply this teaching in your life and how you plan to share it with others.
5. Finally, make this concept ‘How to experience God’s love and forgiveness’ a way of life through the practice of the following
1. Set aside 20 to 30 minutes to be alone with God. Prayerfully ask him to reveal any sinful attitudes or actions in his life that he dislikes and make a written list of them. Confess these sins (agree with God about them), according to his promise in 1 John 1:9 on the other side of the list, write the verse; Thank him according to his promise. Then destroy the list.
2. Ask God daily to make you sensitive to anything in your life that he dislikes. Then later in the day, when you become aware of such an area, immediately pray and ask for God’s forgiveness, according to his promise.
3. Use the brief outline on the front of the paper, the enlarged outline on the other papers in a concept recording, to share this vital truth with others, share it as often as you can during the week. Provide a brochure, and perhaps a tape or cassette, to those with whom you share the concept, so that they too can study this material in depth and pass it on to others.

AMPLIFIED SCHEME

1. Personally knowing Jesus Christ is the greatest adventure that man can experience.
1. Jesus of Nazareth is the most remarkable, powerful and attractive personality of all ages (Isaiah 7:14; 53:4-6)
2. Jesus intended the Christian life to be an exciting and abundant adventure (John 10:10; Galatians 5:22-23)
3. Unfortunately, most Christians are not experiencing a life of joy and victory as taught in the Bible by the Apostle Paul and our Lord (Romans 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; John 15:8).
1. The average Christian is not fruitful.
1. There is a vast difference between New Testament Christianity and the Christianity evidenced in the lives of many Christians today.
2. The first century church had a great impact for God in the world (Acts 17:6) (BUT FAILING TO FIND THEM, THEY DRAGGED JASON AND SOME OTHER BROTHERS BEFORE THE CITY OFFICIALS SCREAMING: “THESE MEN WHO HAVE CAUSED TROUBLE FOR ALL HE” HAVE NOW COME HERE)
1. They knew the reality of being filled with the Spirit.
2. They had met God’s requirements for supernatural cleansing from their sins (Psalms 51:2, 3, 10, 12, and 13).
2. Today we face a great challenge as we face the most desperate hour in all of human history.
1. The whole world is full of anxiety, fear and frustration.
2. Never before in recorded history has there been such an ideal opportunity to present the claims of Christ.
3. In the midst of these tremendous problems and opportunities, most Christians have become more part of the problem than part of the solution.

1. They do not show a quality of life that makes others want to know our Lord.
2. They don’t know how to appropriate God’s power and resources to make an impact in the world.
3. The fact that many Christians are part of the problem rather than part of the solution can be better understood by realizing that there are three kinds of people in the world (1 Corinthians 2:14; 3:3): Natural man Spiritual man carnal man
1. There is the natural man who is not a Christian
1. It depends solely on your own resources.
2. Spiritually, he is dead to God, dead in trespasses and sins.
2. There is the spiritual man, who is a Christian and who is controlled and empowered by the Holy Spirit of God.
1. He continually draws on the unlimited resources of God’s love and power.
2. Spiritually, he is alive to God, because the Son of God lives in him and through him.
3. Give glory to God for your fruitful life.
3. There is the carnal man, who, although Christian; he is trying to live in his own strength (1 Corinthians 3).
1. He is a defeated and fruitless Christian.
2. He never allows the Holy Spirit to mold him into the type of person God created him to be.
3. Live in endless frustration.
4. Sadly, many times it is a person who does not realize that they are in the carnal category (Romans 7:14-19).
5. Live in slavery to sin (Romans 7:20-25)
4. God has provided the solution for the carnal Christian through the power of the Holy Spirit, who can free him from the vicious power of sin and death (Romans 7:25; 8:3).
1. Self-imposed religious disciplines only lead to defeat and frustration.
2. By faith, we can experience the power of the resurrection and the life of Christ in and through us (Colossians 3:10, 1 Peter 1:7, Hebrews 11:6).
1. Faith is another word for trust, but trust must have an object.
2. The object of the Christian’s faith is God and His word (John 14:14).
3. It is tragic that the average Christian is a practical atheist, who professes to believe in God but acts as if God does not exist or is unwilling to help him.