Spiritual | How Can I Have Faith?

What does it mean to become a new person with a new life? What does it mean to be a ‘Christian’? The word ‘Christian’ now often has negative connotations. For others, there might be some positive connotation, i.e. some people think, ‘Well, Christians – those are the “nice people”.’

But is that accurate? No. Because many people who do not practice the way of Jesus are extremely nice people, but they wouldn’t want to be known as Christians, because they’re not.

Other people say, ‘Well, surely we’re all basically Christians because we’re born in a “Christian nation.” But being born in a vaguely Christianised society doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than being born in a garage would make you a car! Or being born in T.I.’s house makes you a rapper. It doesn’t track.

So what is a Christian? A Christian is a Christ-ian: someone who follows Jesus, someone who puts their faith in Jesus. Someone who looks like Jesus and practices His way.