My Mother’s Journey to Accepting the Gospel of the Grace of God

This website was created with the intention of helping my mother understand the gospel of the grace of God. In 2019, after I fully comprehended how to “rightly divide the word of truth,” I began sharing my understanding with her. At that time, I provided her with a paper I had written that contrasted the gospel of the kingdom with the gospel of the grace of God, and it also included the mysteries that our Apostle Paul was given by Jesus Christ. Additionally, I gave her a copy of The Heaven Test.

Having my mother accept the gospel of the grace of God was not as easy as I had hoped that it would be. There were two main impediments that I had to overcome if my mother was to accept the gospel. These two impediments were one (1) she had never heard the gospel of the grace of God preached to her, and two (2) my mother believed that her water baptism was a precondition of her salvation.

These two impediments that kept my mother from accepting the gospel were huge. In fact, after trying to have my mother accept the gospel for six years, I had finally given up hope that I would be able to have my mother accept the gospel. Thankfully, God’s timing and patience are unmatched.

On January 26, 2025, I visited my 97-year-old mother at her assisted living facility. When I mentioned that it was Sunday, she began to talk about church. This prompted me to open this website on my cell phone and have her read the gospel of the grace of God as recorded in I Corinthians 15:1-4.

After reading these verses, my mother asked me what it means to “believe in vain.” I explained that “believing in vain” refers to believing anything other than solely in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I told my mother that adding anything to the gospel—such as church membership, charitable giving, or other works—means we are adding to the gospel, and thus we “believe in vain.”

I then asked my mother a series of questions to affirm her belief of the gospel. First, I asked if she believed that Jesus Christ died for her sins, to which she responded adamantly, “yes.” Next, I asked if she believed that Jesus Christ was buried, and again she replied yes. Finally, I asked if she believed that Jesus Christ rose from the grave on the third day, and once more, she affirmed her belief.

After my mother had confessed her faith in the gospel, I explained to her that, by believing the gospel, she is saved and will go to heaven. It took her 97 years to accept the gospel of the grace of God and be saved. In the past, she had considered water baptism a necessary precondition for salvation. Later, she believed that one must “live right” to be saved.

On that Sunday afternoon, as she read the gospel and then asked me to explain what it meant to “believe in vain,” I saw clarity in her eyes, as she confessed her faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful that my mother had lived long enough to accept the gospel of the grace of God, in accordance with God’s terms.

On October 2, 2025, my mother went to be with our Lord and Savior. My mother’s acceptance of the gospel made her death much easier for me, since I now had confidence that in the future I will see her for all eternity.

God never gave up on my mother, and God’s timing is always perfect. When my mother accepted the gospel on January 26, 2025, she had full control of her mental abilities. My mother was not experiencing short term memory loss on that day. I know this because she told me that my brother had visited her the day before, and I knew as fact that my brother had visited her the previous day.

Less than two months later, when I visited my mother on March 23, 2025, my mother did not even know me as her son. God gave my mother the clarity of mind on January 26, 2025, when she most needed it, when she fully accepted the gospel of the grace of God. On that same day, God answered one of my prayers.