What Does It Mean To Be A Christian?

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I am a man of faith, so is my family. We go to church every sunday that we can. Some of us go to Church on Fridays as well. The teenagers go to youth to sing hymns and bible study on tuesday nights. Then my uncle hosts prayer meeting at his house every wednesday. We put God first in our family. My mom is from a communist country named Romania. Even though it was not allowed, she would go to prayer meetings. If the cops found out about these meetings then everyone there would be put to jail. Though they never got caught they still took a high risk in going to these meetings. The communist government would hire people to pretend to be Christians and go to the secret prayer meetings, then they would go to the government and tell them what happens there and when the next one was. Those people who were hired started getting called fake brothers. I believe in Christianity very strongly and I think that there are people who try to stop me from being a Christian I like to call these people fake brothers. …show more content…
My parents taught me this, their parents taught them this, and so on an so forth. People sometimes think that I do not have a choice whether or not I am a Christian, but I do have a choice. My entire family has the choice and we all are Christians. It helps me and gives me reason. I live by being a Christian, it really helps me if I have a big decision to face. I try my hardest to follow the Ten Commandments I listen to my parents, I respect my elders, I do not steal, I try very hard not to

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