New Life Believers Worship

This message challenges us to confront one of the most uncomfortable truths in Scripture: the narrow door. Drawing from Luke 13, Matthew 7, and John 14, we're invited to examine what it truly means when Jesus declares, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' The teaching confronts our cultural comfort with pluralism—the idea that all roads lead to heaven—and instead presents the biblical reality that salvation requires a choice. What makes this message particularly powerful is the comparison between Peter and Judas, two disciples who both failed Jesus on the night of His arrest, yet whose eternal destinies diverged based on one critical difference: repentance. Peter returned to Jesus; Judas did not. This isn't about works-based salvation or earning our way to heaven—it's about the hard work of letting go. The narrow gate isn't difficult because God is exclusive or unloving; it's narrow because we can't bring our sin through it. We can't drag our old life into new life. The wide road looks appealing precisely because it lets us keep everything we're holding onto, but it leads to destruction. The narrow road requires us to release what we're clinging to and choose Jesus above all else. This is the daily challenge of discipleship: when we veer off the path into darkness, will we stay there or return to the light? Jesus invites us back, always, with no shame—but we must choose to come.