Warren Mueller
“While I believed the historical facts about Jesus, I was in a religion that relied on the sacraments for salvation. The result was that, by the time I reached eighth grade, I felt as though I had failed in this religious system.”
Richard Goodwin
“I felt that if we tried to live a good life and did not do too many bad things that if there was such a place as Heaven that we would possibly go there.”
SetCaptivesFree
“I was taught in the Catholic church that you had to earn your way to heaven by being good enough.”
Timothy Abraham
“The good deeds will be placed in one pan of the balance, and the evil deeds in the other. If the good deeds are heavier, then the believer will go to the paradise…”
Lizzie Ann Troyer
“We all came to see the error of basing church membership on compliance with the Mennonite booklet of rules. Instead, we based on a personal testimony of salvation by Jesus’ blood alone, counting all self-motivated works as filthy rags like Paul in Philippians 3 described his.”