What I Should Do to Get Saved

About This Book

This is the book for the person who typed “what do I need to do to be saved” into a search bar at 2 AM.

The person sitting in the back row of a church they haven’t attended in years, wondering if it’s too late. The person who grew up hearing about Jesus but never understood what any of it actually meant. The person who believes in God but doesn’t know if God believes in them.

What I Should Do to Get Saved is also for the Christian who’s been saved for twenty years and couldn’t explain it clearly to their own child. The pastor’s kid who knows the language but missed the meaning. The person who said the prayer, walked the aisle, got baptized — and still feels unsure.

Twelve Chapters. Four Parts. One Answer.

Part I: The Question

Why this question matters, what you’re really asking, and what went wrong.

1. The Question That Changes Everything — The Philippian jailer asked it on his knees. You’re asking it now.
2. What You’re Really Asking — Beneath the surface question are deeper ones: Am I enough? Can I be forgiven? Does God want me?
3. How We Got Here — Sin — not as a list of bad behaviors, but as the fracture between who we were made to be and who we’ve become.

Part II: The Answer

Grace, faith, repentance, and what God actually did.

4. What God Did About It — The gospel — not as a formula but as a rescue.
5. Grace — The Thing You Can’t Earn — The most misunderstood word in Christianity. Not a reward. A gift you didn’t ask for from someone you don’t deserve.
6. Faith — What It Actually Means to Believe — Not intellectual agreement. Not a feeling. Trust — the kind that changes how you live.
7. Repentance — The Turn — Not self-hatred. Not groveling. The prodigal son standing up in the pigpen and walking home.

Part III: The Response

What you do with the answer — practically, honestly, today.

8. So What Do I Actually Do? — The action chapter. What responding to the gospel looks like in real time, in your living room, right now.
9. But What About…? — The honest questions people carry but are afraid to ask. No bumper sticker answers.
10. What Salvation Is Not — Church membership. Moral improvement. Cultural Christianity. A ticket out of hell with no change in how you live. None of that.

Part IV: The Life After

What happens next — assurance, doubt, growth, community.

11. Now What? — The first steps after salvation. Not a 47-step discipleship plan. Just the first honest steps.
12. The Doubts That Come After — Assurance. The doubt that follows decision. And why your salvation is held by the One who gave it, not the one who received it.

Who This Book Is For

• The honest seeker — who knows something is missing and needs clarity without manipulation
• The uncertain believer — who said the prayer years ago and still isn’t sure it took
• The lifelong Christian — who knows the vocabulary but couldn’t explain the gospel to a stranger
• The burned and wary — who was hurt by religion but hasn’t given up on God

Every reader who picks up this title is carrying some combination of hope, fear, confusion, shame, curiosity, and urgency. This book honors all of it from the first page.

What I Should Do to Get Saved is a standalone title from Martin Balome, written under the Caliana Devotional Writing System (CDWS v1.0). Coming soon from Caliana Press.