So, I believe that my statement is apt. It is appropriate to say that the church which follows the Bible is the one that’s right. Therefore, if you want a scriptural answer to our question tonight, you don’t need to examine all the different creeds separately; just take the Bible and examine it. Follow its teaching and directions step by step. This course will lead you into the right church, and into heaven at last. You won’t need to investigate all the religious organizations which exist about us without Scriptural authority. III Conditions of Membership Let us see what the Bible actually teaches concerning the doctrine and practice of the church. Then we shall know which is right so far as these items are concerned. I want to say now, and repeat many times as we go along, that a church may be right on one point and wrong on another. A church may follow the Bible on one point and not follow it on another, and a church is right to the extent that it follows the Bible. It’s wrong to the extent that it fails to do so. No church is _all_ right until it follows the Bible on _all_ points. First of all, let’s look at the conditions of membership in the church we read about in the Bible. Acts 2:47 shows that the conditions of membership in God’s church are identical with the conditions of salvation. “The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Since the Lord adds to His church all saved people, the conditions of membership and the conditions of salvation are exactly the same. We learn from the Scriptures listed here (speaker points to the board) that the first thing one must do in order to be saved is to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. The Philippian jailor said to Paul and Silas, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all of his, straightway” (Acts 16:20-33). In answer to the jailor’s question then, the inspired preacher said first of all, “Believe”; then he taught him the word of the Lord, which led to his repentance, evidenced by the fact that, whereas he had a few minutes ago placed stripes across their backs with a heavy whip, he now washed those stripes. Then Paul taught him and his household to be baptized, and taught them that baptism was urgent, because they were baptized the same hour of the night. They did not put it off a month or a week or even until daylight, but were baptized immediately, or straightway, even the very same hour of the night.