The salvation of a sinner

What is a sinner's experience of being saved? While the precise details might differ, the essential contours will be the same, whether or not you are Lydia the seller of purple or the jailer in Philippi. Looking at his experience, we see that a sinner expresses a deep sense of his own need, grasps a rich promise of divine salvation, receives a broad offer of heavenly mercy, hears a sweet explanation of God's grace, shows an immediate change of heart and life, testifies to his new-found faith in baptism, and rejoices in the favour he has been granted in Christ Jesus. There is no other path. All must come to the same salvation by way of the same Saviour.