"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?"
Matthew 16:26

You may be filthy rich or dirt poor. You may ride a brand new $25,000 Custom Harley or you may ride an old, beat up $300 Kawasaki. You may have a great wife, 2.3 beautiful kids, a fine house, a faithful dog and a new SUV sitting in the driveway. Or you could be on the edge of life, living in a crack house with drug dealers and junkies for a family, a shack up girlfriend whom you fight with constantly and only your two feet for transportation. You might be a weekend warrior, taking your shiny, new hog and new leathers out for a short spin every other weekend. Or you could be a "real" biker who lives for the chance to ride every time you wake up, wearing the scratches & rust on your scoot like a badge of honor. Regardless of where you're at and where you've come from, you're reading this for a reason. I hope it's because you've got an open mind. That you're willing to go against the grain once in a while. That maybe you're tired of the same old "day in & day out" without anything really special that you can look back on or forward to. Maybe you feel that you're living your life for "things" and "people" but are somehow missing the real purpose of life?

Nobody is perfect!

You may think, "Oh yeah, I've seen how Christians can act!" You may have seen TV preachers constantly asking for your money, you may have a Christian neighbor who borrowed something from you and never returned it, or you may have been cut off on the freeway by some guy with a little chrome fish on his car. Yes, it's true! Christians make mistakes, we do dumb things, insensitive things, we're tempted by the same things you are. I personally know Christians who struggle with alcohol & drug addiction, who've cheated on their wives, who've broken the law and had to do time. I've not only known ‘em, I've been there myself. We are not really any better or different than you, except that we have a relationship with God.

God exists. He's real! He cares about you! He loves you!

Having a relationship with God means He forgives us for the bad and stupid things we do. It means that His love for us is greater than anything you could've done in your life. You could've cheated with a best friend's wife, you could've stolen money from work, you could've even killed someone and have kept it a secret for years. God still loves you and has already forgiven you for that, all of it. That doesn't mean you should shirk your responsibilities and not make restitution for the wrong choices you've made. But at least God doesn't hold them against you.

Jesus is real!

You've no doubt heard about Jesus before. You've probably been handed a tract, cleverly designed to trick you about what's inside. You may have been to church as a kid or has had to sit through Sunday school or some boring sermon. The bottom line is you're either on one side or the other right now. If you're on the side going to heaven with the rest of us, then Amen! If you're on the other side, riding' your scoot at full speed through the gates of hell with so many others, then that's your choice too. God isn't some cosmic killjoy bent on making some people's lives miserable. Ever since Adam & Eve ate the apple, this whole world has been cursed, and all of us along with it. God didn't want it that way, but that was man's choice and God always gives us the freedom to choose. But God loves us so much that He's provided a way out to everyone who wants it. Instead of us paying our own way into heaven by our "not so good" works, Jesus has paid the way for us by dying for us on the cross. A perfect man without any sin, no flaws, completely innocent and He allowed Himself to be killed in our place.

So where do you go from here?