Introduction

I don't understand how a person could not want to be Christian.
I know that anyone could come up with dozens of ill-formed excuses, but if a person really and truly researched what it meant to follow Christ, they could not possibly ignore Him. He is simply too wonderful.
Yet people do. They make lame excuses to get out of worship. Being a teenager, I know that one of the most common excuses that I've heard for not following Jesus is the fact that "you have to follow rules." In modern day society, nobody wants to do things when they are told to do them; we want to do things when we decide that we want to do them. Especially us Americans.
Yet when I hear the "rules" complaint, I always find it an interesting, if ill-prepared, excuse. We always, no matter what we do, must comply to rules. Rules in school, in society, even in our own homes. Some of these rules are wonderful ideas, others, questionable or downright bad. Yet the rules of God are all perfect.
Perfect adj. -entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings
And while our lives are drowning in a suffocating flood of thousands of rules, God only gives us ten. Just ten.

-Worship God above all things
-Do not worship false Gods
-Do not take the Lord's name in vain
(don't say 'God' unless you're talking about Him)
-Keep the Sabbath holy
(go to church on Sunday)
-Honor your father and mother
-You shall not kill
-You shall not commit adultery
-You shall not steal
-You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
(don't lie)
-You shall not covet your neighbor's possessions

All of these rules come from God, delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. All of these rules are perfect. So why should we not adhere to them? God gives us these rules so that we may be happy and live eternally. And though He has the power to make us follow Him, he lets us choose.
Why? Because he loves us enough to give us the freedom to decide our own fate. It is as if He is the coach, telling us the rules to a game. When you know the rules and then go onto the field to compete, you are much more likely to win than those who do not know the rules. Those who run around recklessly without rules to guide them are unhappy and dangerous not only to others, but to themselves. Those who know the rules are God's followers, and they go out onto the field of the world to win the prize of heaven. Those who do not know the rules are those who choose to ignore God's call, and they try to play the game without knowing its purpose. They search for the meaning of life, yet they only have to look to the rules to find them. God is the meaning of life.
Still wary of the rules? Are you tentative to follow them because you cannot bring yourself to believe? Then I shall tell you how to believe.
Pray.
Look to your heart.
Research the proof of God's miracles.
Think.
There are certain things each human is born with, certain values we so not have to be taught, but already know. Killing, lying, stealing, being disrespectful, all of these are wrong. And all of these things are covered int the ten commandments. How can we possibly be born knowing these things unless God, our creator, placed the knowledge in out souls?