Christianity is the predominate reigning religion of the age. People everywhere are claiming to be “Christians” and millions of people are simply jumping on the band wagon. A recent poll revealed that the majority of Americans in the 21st century claim to be some type of Christian. Why you might ask. Part of the reason stems from the incorrect usage of the word “Christian”. According to our culture, a “Christian” is anyone who claims to be a Christian. In the pursuit to find some sort of identity many people have taken up this mantra and proclaim a lie. What than is a Christian? If it is not just a simple claim, than what is it? In this essay we are going to attempt to answer this query from the perspectives of the author of Christianity and
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Gresham Mechen says that a Christian is someone who believes in the tenets of Christianity. In essence, if you believe the bible and its teachings, then you are a Christian. If you deny them, then you are not. The key teaching of Christianity rests on the the chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's death and resurrection are the key principles of the Christian religion; on him they rise or fall. Christianity is a way of life and a doctrine something that we vow to live by each and every new day. It is not just a once only claim. You cannot say Christ was just a good moral example. Because as Gresham says, “If he be merely and example he is not an example worth following because he claimed to be far more.” Jesus Christ is the example we should seek to emulate, but more specifically he is the “object” of our …show more content…
A Christian is not just someone who claims to be a Christian for many people who do not believe or trust in Jesus consider themselves Christians simply because they attend church services or live in a so-called “Christian” nation. However, neither going to church nor living in a Christian nation make you a true Christian biblically speaking. Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. Even our best works are like dung. “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” Isaiah 64:6. A Christian is some who has been born again (John 3:3,7; 1 Peter 1:23) and has put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Titus says, “He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” Ephesians 2:8 tells us that it is “…by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” A true Christian is a person who has placed faith and trust in the person and work of Jesus Christ, which includes His death on the Cross as recompense for sin, His resurrection on the third day. John 1:12 tells us, “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become
Gresham Mechen says that a Christian is someone who believes in the tenets of Christianity. In essence, if you believe the bible and its teachings, then you are a Christian. If you deny them, then you are not. The key teaching of Christianity rests on the the chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's death and resurrection are the key principles of the Christian religion; on him they rise or fall. Christianity is a way of life and a doctrine something that we vow to live by each and every new day. It is not just a once only claim. You cannot say Christ was just a good moral example. Because as Gresham says, “If he be merely and example he is not an example worth following because he claimed to be far more.” Jesus Christ is the example we should seek to emulate, but more specifically he is the “object” of our …show more content…
A Christian is not just someone who claims to be a Christian for many people who do not believe or trust in Jesus consider themselves Christians simply because they attend church services or live in a so-called “Christian” nation. However, neither going to church nor living in a Christian nation make you a true Christian biblically speaking. Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. Even our best works are like dung. “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” Isaiah 64:6. A Christian is some who has been born again (John 3:3,7; 1 Peter 1:23) and has put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Titus says, “He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” Ephesians 2:8 tells us that it is “…by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” A true Christian is a person who has placed faith and trust in the person and work of Jesus Christ, which includes His death on the Cross as recompense for sin, His resurrection on the third day. John 1:12 tells us, “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become