What is a Christian?

Christians are those who have willingly submitted their lives to Christ. Who are taught in Him just as truth is in Jesus and have put aside our old selves which is corrupted and we are renewed in the spirit of our mind to put on the new self which in the likeness of God has been created in the righteousness and holiness of the truth. (Ephesians 4.21 – 24).

Christians are not faultless, but those who are Christ’s possession are perfected in Christ! We are those who have had their eyes opened to turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, so that we may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Jesus. (Acts 26.18)

Christians have been baptized being united with Christ in the likeness of His death to be raised in the likeness of His resurrection. Our old selves being crucified with Him, being freed from sin. (Romans 6.3 – 7). Sin does not reign in us. But our responsibility is to present ourselves to God as those alive from the dead and our members as instruments of righteousness to God. Sin shall not be master over us. We are under the grace of our God. (Romans 6.12 – 14).

Christians are members of the body of Christ. We assemble as the Church of Christ which is simply the congregation of our Lord and Savior. We are collectively known as the Bride of Christ and therefore subject to only our Lord and Savior. (Ephesians 5).

Christians have many different aspects of their lives: We love, we provide, we have work, we cry, we laugh, we have hard times and good times. We are not faultless, but the one overwhelming aspect of a Christian is his / her willingness to serve one another in the same spirit that Christ served. (Matthew 5.43 - 48, Matthew 22.37 - 39, Mark 12.29 - 30, Colossians 3)