"Don't worry about me! I'll slip into heaven with the crowd someday," a thoughtless young man said to me one day.
I replied: "Friend, you have mistaken the place—the crowd is on the way to hell. If you 'slip in with the crowd' you will slip into hell. The Bible says: `For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.' "Matt. 7:13, 1413Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13‑14).
He had not thought of that. Have you?
Salvation is an individual thing. Each soul must receive it for himself alone. Before your soul can enter the gates of heaven, you must pass through the strait (narrow) gate of conversion.
Yes, it must be conversion, not reformation. You must turn to God and trust in Christ to save your soul.
Beware of the crowd! Single yourself out, and take the "gift of God," which is "eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23).