"Christianity," said Martin Luther, "is a
religion of personal pronouns." How true!
It is not, we are all sinners; but
I am a sinner.
It is not, Jesus is a Savior; but
Jesus is MY Savior.
A young man in the West Indies once said to the preacher:
"I believe all you say, and I like your preaching; yet I am not saved. How is that?"
"Have you ever," replied the preacher, "got into the presence of God and said, 'Oh God, if there were not another sinner in the world, I am one. As a sinner, I claim Christ as my Savior, even though every other sinner refuses Him'?"
"Well," said the young man, "it is your very personal way of putting it that I do not like."
There was the answer to his problem. He was not saved because he refused to make his own soul's salvation a personal matter between himself and Christ — the One with whom we have to do.