What does it mean to be a Christian? Is it just an affirmation that there is/was a Jesus? Does it mean joining a religious sect/denomination? It is just a happy confession of faith? It is shaking a preacher's hand, being baptized, having some religious experience (vision, voice, dream, feeling)?
Ask 100 people and probably get 100 different answers. Being a Christian, literally means being a disciple (follower) of Jesus. Jesus said in order to do that, one had to be born again. John 3:3. It is that new birth, the planting of God's seed in us, that makes us Christian (a new creature). We then become citizens of that Kingdom, by being born into that spiritual realm. Nothing short of the reality of being born again of His seed can make us Christian.
Being Christian is allowing the Life within to be expressed in earth (us) as it is in heaven. Being Christian is reckoning ourselves dead, and He alive in us. Being Christian is a living expression of the Life within. Not an act of will worship, or mental conquest of the human nature. We are all sons of Adam by natural birth, and we can all become Sons of God by divine birth. We can only become a Son of God if God's life is in us. Then it is not us, but He that lives inside that both wills and does in us. Thus it is Him and not I. That is what a real Christian is. Being a part of the God’s real body in the earth.
Be Blessed,
Billy and Jan Wells
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