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Is Salvation “Asking Jesus Into Your Heart?”

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Many Christians talk about receiving salvation as saying a prayer to "ask Jesus into your heart." At Woodland Hills, we believe that this approach has far too often been turned into a formula used to deal with the fear of facing an eternity in hell.
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What is Original Sin?

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The Christian doctrine of original sin first took center-stage in the fifth century, mainly with the controversy involving Pelagius and Augustine. Three positions on original sin eventually emerged from the fifth-century debates:
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Can You Be Saved if You Have Ongoing Addictions?

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At Woodland Hills, we believe we first need to stop and refocus the question. When many Christians ask these kinds of questions about salvation, they make two mistakes. First, they think that "being saved" primarily means "being saved from Hell." And second, they approach the question with a “legal” picture of God, meaning they frame the question in terms of a courtroom, where God is both the judge and the prosecuting attorney, and we are the sinful defendant.
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Can I Judge if Someone Is Saved?

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Jesus clearly and unambiguously tells us that we are not to make judgments about other people’s salvation, and to emphasize his point, he says that whatever standard we use to judge others will be used to judge us
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How Do I Explain “Grace” to a Non-Christian?

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Around Woodland Hills, whenever we ask how to explain something regarding our relationship with Christ, one of the first concepts we turn to is covenant relationship. Therefore, we would explain grace by setting it in the context of a covenant-love relationship.
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