What do I have to do to be saved? — Sunday of the Last Judgement
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen. How much do I need to do to get into heaven? This is an easy question to ask. We have busy lives to live, families, work and household tasks. So, let’s reduce this to the bare essentials: what do I actually have to believe and do to be saved? We could start by turning to the Symbol of Faith , the Creed : “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty.” This is a good start: to be saved we need particular beliefs. We need to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, we need to believe that he rose from the dead, we need to believe that we are baptised into him and receive his body and blood in Communion. Is there anything else? We may remember Christ’s words from the Sermon on the Mount, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” [1] We may realise that it is not only what we believe but what we d