Can you be born a Christian?
Do you need to live to a certain standard and struggle to prove you qualify?
Can your parents make you a Christian?
Does the fact that you are born in a Christian country (so called) mean that you are a Christian?
Does going to Church or reading the bible make you a Christian?
Did I just make these questions up – no, I was once asked them by a girl in Liverpool when I was “street preaching’. She had been told that you became a Christian when you were christened and that if you are born in England you must be a Christian because it is a Christian country (that’s debatable!).
The bible actually says that a person is born into the family of God upon believing. The disciple John wrote in his gospel (John.20.31) ‘these things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ: and that believing you might have life through his name’. I would prefer to trust the teaching of a man who knew and loved Jesus than all the tradition that has built up over the years since then.
What about you, are you a Christian in the Bible sense of the term? It’s vital that you have the right answer!
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