• Don’t try to live the Christian life if you haven’t personally accepted Christ as your Savior and Lord. That’s the first step. If you’re not sure whether you’ve done that, click here for an explanation.
• Don’t try to live the Christian life by merely relying on your ability to keep the rules. That’s why the apostle Paul wrote to one group of “law keepers,” and asked if they really thought they could finish by human effort what they had begun by trusting the Lord (Gal. 3:1-5).
• Don’t try to live the Christian life by just making a weekly pilgrimage to church. Meeting with the people of God is important (Heb. 10:25). But the Christian life is not a once-a-week happening, it is a day-to-day relationship with God.
• Don’t try to live the Christian life by simply doing good. That’s too general. For a person with this approach, there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything he wants to do. He picks up hitchhikers, sends money to Ethiopia, gives to the March of Dimes, takes his old clothes to the Salvation Army, and marches in Right-To-Life parades. All of these things are commendable, but they are inadequate.

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