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The way they put it,
If you do not know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, simply pray the following prayer in faith, and Jesus will be your Lord! 
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" and "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:9). You said my salvation would be the result of Your Holy Spirit coming to live in me (John 3:5-6, 15-16; Romans 8:9-11) and that if I would ask, You would fill me with Your Spirit and give me the ability to speak with other tongues (Luke 11:13; Acts 2:4). 
I take You at Your Word. I confess that Jesus is Lord. And I believe in my heart that You raised Him from the dead. Thank You for coming into my heart, for giving me Your Holy Spirit as You have promised, and for being Lord over my life. Amen 
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And ... I'll just leave that there. If you said the prayer & went to kcm.org to get an additional gift, Welcome to the Holy Family; but if you want to know the reality (and no, not the atheists' typical 'they're only doing it to dupe you into church to steal your freedom-etc.'), see how it fits with the rest of the words in my brain ... although that does bring up---

Whether it's Better to be 'Baptized in Infancy' or 'Baptized as an Adult'

Of course, I recognize that 'the salvation prayer' I got from KCM's magazine may not be 'the standard salvation-prayer' (which I don't think even mentions "speaking in other tongues").

Before I looked-up the standard salvation-prayers, I thought about how I and my family have been 'saved since infancy' for untold generations via the Catholic tradition of infant-baptism.

I hear many thinking Christians speak against that, because they think Christianity (or any religion---Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Scientology, Baha'i, Satanism, Wicca, Kabalarianism, whatever) should be a conscious choice made once a person's reached the age of Reason.

But Infant Baptism isn't really what 'saves' the baptized infant (nor what 'marks them down in the book of the righteous' or whatever)! The ritual marking their baptism isn't about 'them' so much as it's about 'what their parents & "godparents" (parents' friends named at the baptism) are going to do---that they'll raise the child in a Christian home and will guide the child on a righteous path.'

(The Catholics aren't fully saved until--after they DO reach a fairly-reasonable age--they choose to attend & complete Confirmation.)

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