What does it mean to be a Christian?

I apologize for not writing in a while. My life has been a little on the crazy side. But I am hoping as things calm down, I can get back on track with the blogging.

So, the past week or so, it has been on my heart to try to explain what being a Christian really means.

There are many people in the church who identify themselves as a Christian but do not actually live the Christian life. I realize no one is perfect and there are times when we sin ans struggle, but someone who is following Christ will feel guilty and remorse for their sin, they will ask for forgiveness and turn away from it. Someone who is following Christ and truly loves God will never want to hurt of disappoint their Heavenly Father. And when they do, knowing that they have hurt their Heavenly Father would actually hurt themselves, and that is where repentance plays a role.

There are many so-called Christians who think that because they have accepted Christ as their Savior and are saved, they can still go about doing what they want (EX. underage drinking, or even drunkenness for those old enough to drink, premarital sex, and whatever else is going on). But this mentality is wrong, Christ died for your sins to make you holy and righteous so that you are able to stand before God and not be condemned to hell. But if you continue on living a heathen lifestyle please do not call yourself a Christian, because you are giving the rest of us a bad rap. And also, the fact that you continue in your unrighteous ways means that you are rejecting holiness and righteousness.

Matthew 16:24-27:
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.


1 Corinthians 10:31:
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

Hebrews 10:9-10:
"Then he said, 'Here I am, I have come to do your will.' He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

Repent now Christian, live for Christ, love for Christ, be transformed for Christ. Stop living for the world.