What Does it Mean For Jesus to be Lord of Your Life?

My name is Samuel and I’m taking an evangelism class. One of our assignments was to role-play a believer and unbeliever with someone. I was playing the believer, and the lady playing the unbeliever asked me, ‘What does it mean that Jesus is the Lord of your life?’ I didn’t know how to explain that without using ‘Christianese’ like ‘get saved’ How should I answer that, and what are some other questions from unbelievers that Christians might struggle with?

Excerpt From The Answer

“I don’t want to be indelicate, but the language “Lordship” is not only unclear, I think it’s misleading. Using the language of Scripture, to me, is preferable. That’s why I avoid phrases like ask Jesus into your heart, make Him Lord of your life, receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. We could demonstrate some of these, but it doesn’t make sense to go to those lengths. Scripture uses terms like believe, trust, or have faith in. We see this evidenced in passages like Ephesians 2:8-9 which says, ‘For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

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