What does being a Christian mean to you?

Question

What is your definition of being a Christian, and where did you get that definition?

Answer 1

It is the relationship I have with my Lord and Savior. It is accepting God as the King of all kings and trying to live my life in a way that glorifies Him. I am try to love all and not judge, I try to be free from sin and I try to follow His law. I also know I am not perfect but ask for forgiveness everyday for my sin!

Answer 2

being a true Christian is to follow the example of Christ (1 Peter 2:21; John 13:15; 1 John 2:6) including all the things he taught his Apostles to write for our instruction (2 Timothy 3:16)

Christ warned that there would be many false christians, claiming to believe in him yet not doing the will of his Father. And that there would only be a few *true* Christians doing the will of his Almighty Father YHWH (see Matthew 7:13-23)

So what did Christ do that we must do in order to be *true* Christians?

1. Pray to and serve "the only true God" (see John 17:3) the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (see Acts 3:13) whose name is YHWH
see also;
Matthew 22:37/Deuteronomy 6:5
Matthew 14:23
Mark 1:35
Mark 6:46
Mark 14:32
Luke 6:12
Matthew 6:9
John 20:17
John 17:1-5
John 5:19
John 14:28
Mark 10:18
Matthew 26:39
John 8:17-18
Mark 13:32
Matthew 20:23
Matthew 3:17

2. love everyone (see Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31) and never harm or kill another human being
see also;
Matthew 5:44-48
Matthew 26:52
Luke 6:27
1 Peter 2:23
1 Peter 3:9
Romans 12:17

3. Preach YHWH's Kingdom which He has appointed His only-begotten Son Yhshua to rule over
see;
Daniel 7:13, 14
Matthew 24:14
Luke 4:43
Luke 10:1-3
Acts 5:42
Acts 8:4
Acts 20:20
1 Corinthians 9:16
Romans 10:15
2 Timothy 4:2-5
Matthew 4:23a
Matthew 9:35a
Luke 9:6a

4. be "no part of the world" of human kingdoms/governments/politics
see;
John 18:36
Daniel 2:44
Luke 4:5-8
James 4:4
John 15:19
John 17:14
John 18:36
Acts 5:29
1 John 2:15
Romans 12:2
John 14:30
2 Corinthians 4:4
Ephesians 2:2
1 John 5:19

naturally, no one would ever follow the above examples of Christ if they did not believe and put faith in the fact that he was sent by his Almighty Father YHWH as our only means of salvation. One must accept and believe and have faith that Yhshua was sent by YHWH as our savior.

agape!

Answer 3

There are true and false Christians. I shall attempt to define the former.

True Christians have love for one another.
True Christians are hated by this world just as Christ was hated by this world.

True Christians are called "sects" or "cults" by false worshippers of God

Answer 4

It is a relationship with Jesus and God the Father - not religion. It is having the Holy Spirit (Spirit of God) within me - to convict me of sin and be my helper everyday of my life. Where did I get his information - the Holy Bible. Start at the book of John and read - it will open your eyes to the Truth - Jesus Christ. Then believe and you will be saved. Blessings dear one.

Answer 5

Christian means you are saved by believed in Jesus that he died for you to pay off your sin. Once you believe in him and receive an everlasting gift. At that moment, you became a Christian. I hope these clearly explain.

Answer 6

Christian means that I follow the teaching of Jesus. It means that I think that Jesus was the Christ. and that he was crucified, died, buried and rose from the dead. The basic summation of Christian belief is in the Nicene creed that we say in church every Sunday. ... we believe in one God, creator of heaven and earth and in His only begotten son,.... etc.

Answer 7

My mother would probably say, "To be a good person. Believe in God and Jesus Christ and get into Heaven. Pray for the animals and the people."

She's a Christian and an animal lover. She once told me she prayed for a squirrel to safely get across a busy street as she was driving. It made it - was safe, and she deemed it was God answering her prayer.

Idiotic isn't she?

Answer 8

What it means to me (and where I get the meanings):

1. God is sovereign (1Ti 6:15), good (Psalms 86:4), loving (1 John 4:16), Holy (Isaiah 6:3; Rev 4:8), and righteous (Psalms 7:11).

2. Every unregenerate person is a sinner (Rom 3:23), dead in his sins (Eph 2:1), possessing a deceitful heart (Jer 17:9), is full of evil (Mark 7:21-23), unable to understand spiritual truth (1Co 2:14), does not seek for God (Rom 3:11), is a slave to his own sin nature (Rom 6:14-20), is hostile in mind and deed to God (Col 1:21), and naturally and rightfully are objects of God's wrath (Eph 2:3).

3. Because of their sinful condition (Rom 6:14-20), the unregenerate do not and cannot freely choose to believe the gospel (Rom 3:10-12; Rom 6:14-20) and that they cannot come to God unless it has been granted to them from the Father (John 6:65) who appoints them to eternal life (Acts 13:48) and grants that they believe (Phi 1:29).

4. God in His love and mercy and out of the kind intention of His own will (Eph 1:5), from before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4), elected (Mark 13:20; Rom 8:33), chose (2Th 2:13-14), and predestined (Eph 1:5,11) some of the lost to salvation and left the others to go their natural way, to damnation (Eph 2:3).

5. God's sovereign predestination was not based upon God looking into the future to see who would pick Him (this would mean that God learned) for no one would pick Him because they are slaves to their sinful natures (Rom 3:10-12; 6:14-20), full of evil (Mark 7:21-23), enemies of God (Rom 5:10), with nothing good dwelling in them (Rom 7:18), hateful, disobedient, and enslaved to their lusts (Titus 3:3).

6. The elect's believing is based solely on the grace of God (Eph 1:7; 2:8), not the will of man (John 1:13; Rom 9:13), and not based upon any foreseen goodness in man (Rom 9:11-13). If God elected based upon the foreseen goodness or choice of someone, then God would be a respecter of persons since He would be showing favoritism based on something in the sinner. God's decisions are according to His own will, according to His own purpose (Eph 1:5), because God is not a respecter of persons (Rom 2:11).

7. Furthermore, those who receive Christ (John 1:12) are justified by faith alone (Rom 5:1), through grace alone (Eph 2:8), in Christ alone (John 14:6).

8. God loves the world (Mat 5:43-48; John 3:16), not just the Jews (John 7:35; Rom 1:16; 2:10), and gave His Son as a propitiation (1 John 4:10), not only for the Jews to whom the Son was sent (Mat 15:24; Acts 13:46), but also for the whole world (1 John 2:2), both Jews and Gentiles (Rom 1:16).

9. As many as receive Christ (John 1:12) do so because they have been appointed to eternal life (Acts 13:48), granted that they believe (Phi 1:29), granted that they repent (2Ti 2:25), and caused to be born again (1Pe 1:3), not by their own wills (John 1:13).

10. The atoning work of Jesus who is God in flesh (John 1:1,14; Col 2:9), the second person of the Triune Godhead (John 1:1-3; John 10:30; Philippians 2:5-7; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1:3), who became sin on our behalf (2Co 5:21), who bore our sins in His body on the cross (1Pe 2:24), who died, was buried, and rose from the dead (1Co 15:3-4), in the same body that He died in (John 2:19-21; Luke 24:39; John 20:27), whose sacrifice was sufficient to save all, but was intended only for the elect and therefore, Jesus only bore the sins of the elect (John 10:11,15; Rom 5:18; 2Co 5:14).

11. God first regenerates the hearts (Ezekiel 36:26-27) and minds of the unsaved so that they are then able to respond to the gospel message and then, by faith, they receive Christ as is evidenced in the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:22-23), the third person of the Triune Godhead, and that they are born again not of their own wills, but of God's will (John 1:13) who has caused them to be born again (1Pe 1:3).

12. Because the salvation of the elect is completely grounded in Christ, they cannot fall away (John 10:27-28; 1 John 2:19).

In summary, I am a five point Calvinist Christian, amillennial, post-trib rapture at the Final Judgment, pseudo-baptistic (not for salvation), non-cessationalist, and covenantal.

Answer 9

Serving God and leading people to Christ, being fishers of men

Answer 10

Its a journey....and a more pleasant one than the first 42 years