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1) Who Is Jesus?2) What exactly is a Christian?
Who is Jesus?
You are a Christian church. What exactly is a Christian?
Simply put, a Christian is a person who believes that Jesus of Nazareth, a man born about 2000 years ago in Bethlehem, was actually God in the flesh. A Christian is someone who puts his or her trust solely and completely in this Jesus. And they intend to conform their lives to His through the power of the Holy Spirit. [Top]
How to be a Christian?
To become a Christian for many is "joining a Christian organization or congregation."
To be a disciple of Jesus is different however. To be a disciple begins, to
be sure, with acknowledging Jesus Christ as one's Lord and Savior. It
continues, however, with orienting one's life to the values that he
modeled. The New Testament write Paul put it this way in his letter to the
church at Colossae: God loves you and has chosen you as his own special
people. So be gentle, kind, humble, meek and patient. Put up with each
other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong just as Christ has forgiven
you. Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything
completely together."
A disciple of Jesus also commits him or herself to six core spiritual disciplines to
improve on one's relationship with God: daily prayer, weekly worship,
regular Bible reading and study, being in relationship with others for
mutual encouragement and support, serving others in some way and finally
giving of one's time, finances and skills for the building up of the
kingdom. We call them disciplines because that is what they are, the ways
we discipline ourselves to practice what we believe and teach.
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