Communion with our Lord: John 6:53 - 66. Now notice here that he was not speaking figuratively, because "many of His disciples left Him" as they said "this is a hard teaching, who can accept it?" Did Jesus even try and say anything to persuade them this wasn't meant literally? No. In fact the word used for "Eat" means literally to "gnaw" or "chew". He meant it literally. Therefore we need the ''True Bread of Life" Christ present in the Eucharist.
You must also have Baptism: Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38; 1:5; 8:13,16 both by water and the Holy Spirit.
Confession of your sins: James 5:16, 1John 1:9, Acts 18:19
Notice that this is to another person who has authority to forgive as Christ gave authority here: John 20:22,23
You must seek out and do the will of God: Matthew 7:21,22 ; 12:50, John 7:17, ICorinthians 3:10-15, and many many more. Not that we "work our way into heaven" No not at all. But we must DO the will of God - "works" - Such as Communion, Baptism, Confession. Otherwise we our doing our own will, at best.
Right along with that I guess (for me it was anyway) we must discover where Christs Church IS. We have One God, with One Truth of and by Him, who obviously loves us therefore, there should be One Church here to lead us. Because by His loving us, and suffering for us - we can't believe He would have left us orphaned here on earth. For me it was by the process of elimination - what you have left after all is examined MUST be the Truth, no matter how hard it is to swallow.
Which Church has been around the Longest?
Who did Christ say he would build His Church on? Matthew 16:17-19, Jesus gave authority to Peter, and after the Crucifixion Peter was the head of the Church, his name was mentioned first always, he was the first to enter the tomb of Christ, he led the early Church. Acts 1:13,15; 2:14, Chapter 3, 5:15, 8:20, etc. etc. Look how many times Peter is spoken of in Acts compared to everyone else (besides Paul anyway)
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