The first step in coming to salvation is admitting in one’s own heart that one is a sinner, lost, and separated from God. 

God makes it abundantly clear that all are sinners. 1 John 1:8 says, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—“