Six Steps to Salvation Titus 3:3-7 Brethren have often suggested that there are five steps to salvation. I'm told that this was a memory aid used last century to teach children what must be done to be saved. The teacher would count off the steps finger by finger of one hand (hence, five steps); hear, believe, repent, confess Christ and be baptized. If God had given us six fingers on a hand we could easily find another step in the scripture (we could, for instance, put "be taught the gospel" before "hear" the way as Paul suggests in Romans 10:14; "How will they hear without a preacher," he asked). Our text suggests six steps which had to be taken in order for us to be saved; "For we also were once foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on th...
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