How To Become A Christian (12 views)
From:  David (DavidABrown)    10/17/2003 2:40 pm  
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Basic Christian: How to become a Christian?

To desire to be a Christian is to desire to be a child of God, to be a person in a personal relationship with God.

To become a Christian is to partake in the actual event of receiving God the Holy Spirit inside of our own human spirit and therefore creating a new Spiritual life inside of us. It is this Spiritual life that unites us and makes us children of God our Father.

In other words Christianity is not an Idea nor a Philosophy. Christianity is an event specifically the event of God giving us a new Spiritual Birth, this new Birth is also called the "Born Again" or "Born from Above" event.


2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.


Christianity is a series of actual events that are occurring throughout history.

The Bible tells us what the basic series of events are that make Christianity real time events and not ideas or a philosophy about life.

God created mankind to live forever so that we can get to know God forever.

Mankind disobeyed God and entered into a relationship with sin and with sin came death (separation from God).

Mankind is now separated from God, so God then came to mankind by taking on the form and appearance as a human. God became a human to interact with humans on a human level.

God's entrance into the physical word as a physical person was accomplished via the Virgin Birth.

Jesus then died on the cross. Sin requires death and only through death can sin be removed. To die is the end, fortunately it is the end of sin.

Three days later Jesus Resurrected from death to Life. Resurrecting to a new life, a new Spiritual life for us in the Resurrection Life of Jesus.


1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures:

Gospel means Good News, Eternal Life in the Resurrection Life of Jesus is the Good News of Christianity.

Since Jesus died for us there is only one thing for us to do and that is to Accept what Jesus did for us. This is called Faith and Trust. We have faith that Jesus is Alive even after He suffered and died. We have faith that the same Resurrection Life that Jesus now lives we too also live.

Faith is a wonderful thing! Faith is trust, we trust Jesus. Faith excludes works, it would seem natural to have to do something in order to gain the attention of God, we don't. We already have God's attention, what God wants is for us to have a relationship with Him. We can only have a relationship when we acknowledge the existence of the other person, in this case, God.


When should we become a Christian?

The Bible tells us that we are created to get to know God and that every moment in life is a moment to get to know God. God wants very much for each and every person to acknowledge and to accept Him.


2 Corinthians 6:1-2 We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored (helped/aided) thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of the salvation.

In the Bible when people became Christians they took action they got Baptized in water, fellowshipped with other Christians, prayed and read the Bible and served and proclaimed Jesus to others. They also took the very important step of destroying in fire the elements of their past life that are unpleasing to God. It is important to rid our lives of the old unpleasing ways and that means destroying whatever does not glorify God. Sometimes it's drugs, pornography, music, movies, books, clothing, whatever it is destroy it in acknowledgment that it has been destroying your soul and your relationship with God.

To become a Christian is to acknowledge that Jesus is God and to acknowledge that Jesus is Alive and with us at every moment. To acknowledge God is to talk to God, this is called prayer.


You can start and talk to God in a prayer like this.


God I acknowledge you in the existence of Jesus and I acknowledge your Love for me to come as a human and to die on the cross for me. I too love you and I desire to live my life in a relationship with you. Thank you that you love me. Thank you that you hear me when I call upon your name. I accept Your death and Your blood as the full penalty for all of my sins and I acknowledge that by the blood of Jesus I am now clean. I ask that you having cleansed me will now in Spirit come into my life and make me your child. God I give you my life this day to take and to do with whatever you will. I now walk in faith day by day and moment by moment in the love and Resurrection life of Jesus. To the glory of God and the praise of His holy Angels and to the delight of all the Saints of Heaven I now confess that Jesus is my God, my Lord, my Savior, my Companion, and also my Friend. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen 


1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

God Bless you,
David Anson Brown





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David A. Brown
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