What Does It Mean To Be A Christian

These reading were very good and shows that being a Christian is more than just a title we wear above our heads, but rather a title as well as responsibility we are to be obedient to. Thinking about this reminded me of our mission trip to the DR where I wrote a life statement, “To live a life showing a genuine love for others as Christ loved me. To live an authentic day to day life demonstrating an authentic representation of who I am in Christ, because He has given me everything I need and have. To be a light to others to show something is different because I strive to live an authentic, genuine life for Christ.” We’re called to live different, love others, be countercultural, expect suffering, be tolerant, give, and have endurance. The mark of a true believer is love, we are called to love one another as Christ has loved us, if we do not love we are nothing.
Question, has the number or percentage of heresies increased or decreased over the past 400 years? The reading in Being Christian was very good about dissecting the Lord’s prayer. It gave us good perspective to what it means. It encourages me that in the third century they were asking the question, if God knows what you are going to ask, why bother to pray? It shows there are things we will never understand and remain a mystery but I like the response one had to that which was, “God knows, of course, what we are going to say and do, but God has decided that He will work out His proposes through what we decide to say and do.” It’s still has its confusion, but shows us God works through