New believer number 2

The person I interviewed for my new believer survey was a student in my youth group at my home church that I help out at. His journey to Christianity seems quite interesting. He said he came from a very legalistic church. He said that it was hard to accept Christianity at first, but eventually got it. I would think that maybe coming from a very legalistic church that the thing that might have been the most difficult to accept was the simplicity of Christianity perhaps. Coming from a very legalistic church I could imagine how difficult it would be do accept that there is nothing to do to accept Christianity, but to accept it and let God do the rest and He already has. Another thing he said was that the best part about becoming a Christian was “the joy that is always inside of you all the time.” And when asked what would be the most helpful to help others grow in their Christian faith would to let them know about God’s love and to let that change them and not try to change them by yourself. I guess it goes to show that the Jesus’ yoke really is that light as He states in Matthew 11:28 when talking about the difference between the Pharisees legalism and Christianity. I think that sometimes it is so difficult to accept Christianity and it’s simplicity is because of our pride. Sometimes it seems like we want to be able to get to God on our own sometimes by however it may be legalism, trying to be a good person or whatever else it may be. But Christianity is all about giving up on our own efforts and accepting that it is only through Jesus that we can be saved. Maybe sometimes in Christianity today we do not stress this enough?