GreyDestiny Posted March 15, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 21 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 131 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 59 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/08/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2018 This is more of an opinion piece, as i'm sure we all have different ideas of what it means to a Christian, but I figured i'd share my thoughts. I was talking with a woman a while ago. We were talking about how crazy this world has become and that somehow changed into her talking about how she did not feel like a Christian. She believed that to be a Christian was to be "Christ-like," and that because she regarded herself as not being all that good, she didn't really think she could really call herself a Christian. To me, to be a Christian is not to be Christ-like, it is the pursuit to be Christ-like. All of us, each of us but men, are nowhere near the Lord's level. We must be able to look inside ourselves and whilst we see the inherent evil therein, we must also see the inherent good. We must engage in inner turmoil, placing the good above the evil, and asking the Lord for forgiveness whenever evil happens to overcome weak, frail things such as we. We must repent of our sins, lest we be lost in them, lest they consume us. We must take joy in the Lord and all that which is good. We will never be perfect in this lifetime, we will always fall short and there will always be room for improvement... But the seeking of that improvement is what it means to be a Christian, I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoob57 Posted March 15, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 35 Topic Count: 100 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 41,186 Content Per Day: 7.98 Reputation: 21,461 Days Won: 76 Joined: 03/13/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/27/1957 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Within that verse is pronounced ineptitude into full reliance upon Jesus [4] For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. The narrow path is reliance upon Christ alone as we allow His Word through His Power in The Person of The Holy Spirit to bring submission through mind, will and emotions that very same Word... it is as Jesus was the Living Word so now we are becoming same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted March 15, 2018 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 686 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 221 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2018 7 hours ago, GreyDestiny said: . We must repent of our sins I believe all we are to do to be Christ like is follow his example of love. 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 8 Love covers a great many sins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Finch Posted March 31, 2018 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,383 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 449 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/13/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/30/1944 Share Posted March 31, 2018 (edited) Being a Christian is nothing else than living unto God in the power of Christ as He lives in us. Nothing unites us to Christ or to one another but His Holy Spirit dwelling and working inwardly and outwardly in us as it did in Him. Edited March 31, 2018 by Albert Finch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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