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Where Can I Find Assurance in My Salvation? | Ask the Pastor

❓Where can you find assurance for your salvation?

Look to Jesus. ✝️

Your assurance isn’t found in your feelings or efforts, but in what Christ has already completed. ✅

Jesus died for you, rose from the grave, and promised that through faith in Him, you are already saved.

When doubt creeps in, look not to your heart — which is a shaky place — but to the concrete gifts God has given you.

Are you baptized? Are you receiving the sacraments?

These are God’s tangible promises for you. 🌈

Your heart may be uncertain, but God’s promises are not.

Just as Christ cannot be put back in the grave, your baptism cannot be undone. 🙌

Your salvation rests not on your performance, but on God’s faithfulness.

Take comfort in these unchanging gifts of grace. 💝

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Executive Director of Missions and Theology.

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In 1998, several LCMS pastors began planning a smaller, more regionally minded, cost-effective conference for youth, designed to be uniquely Lutheran. A year later, those plans were unveiled for the Dying to Live national Lutheran youth conference, held in the summer of 2000. Over 700 youth and adults from 25 states attended what was, for all intents and purposes, the first Higher Things conference. Based on the success of that first conference, more plans developed for what would become Higher Things.

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Our plan for the future? We will keep putting the Gospel in the ears of youth as long as the Lord allows!