To be quite direct and personal, if I am to benefit from Christ’s death I must take three simple steps, of which the first two are preliminary and the third so final that to take it will make me a Christian. The reader should consider these steps very carefully, looking up the verses mentioned. (1) I must acknowledge myself to be in God’s sight a helpless sinner. In Romans 3:22, 23 this unequivocal statement is made: “There is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”