Lance Lambert
What a Christian
Is Not
"Sometimes the easiest way of getting to a clear understanding of the matter is to clear the ground of all the rubbish."
Six misconceptions
01
"I was born in a Christian country."
It is not something national. It is not something to do with natural birth.
02
"My parents were Christians."
Nowhere in the Bible does it even suggest the possibility of naturally transmitting our salvation to our children. The Lord Jesus said that we must be born again, born of God if we would be Christians.
03
"I'm a good person."
That is just where many make their greatest mistake. The Lord Jesus never said that good people were Christians and bad people were non-Christians. Again and again He said that He had come into this world not to call the righteous to repentance, but the sinner.
04
"I'm educated and decent."
The idea that an educated person is therefore a Christian is so illogical that we need not stay with it for a moment.
05
"I go to church and say my prayers."
There are multitudes of people who say their prayers, read their Bible, go to church. They believe that in so doing they are Christians. But the word of God condemns the idea that things such as that constitute a man or a woman a Christian.
06
"I've been baptised and confirmed."
Nothing without can possibly do anything within. It doesn't matter whether I've been baptised or christened or confirmed, or whether I take the Lord's table or belong to a church or a chapel. Those things in themselves cannot do something inside of me.
"Becoming a Christian, being a Christian, is wholly at the beginning something within you — within."
— Lance LambertWhat it actually is
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"I have been born of God."
A Christian is someone who has been born of God. Something of God for the first time has been deposited in you. For the first time, you are linked in an eternal union with God. You, a human being, and God — the almighty God, the eternal God — have been fused together.
A Christian is someone who is joined to God. God is joined to them. They have been born of God. They are children of God. They are now God's family. They are His offspring. They belong to Him for all eternity.
A Christian is someone who is joined to God. God is joined to them. They have been born of God. They are children of God. They are now God's family. They are His offspring. They belong to Him for all eternity.