Becoming a Christian is not just believing in Christ's message. It isn't even a matter of "truely believing" it. The message has to change you.
Becoming a Christian isn't just an emotional experience or a feeling. There is more to it than feeling something; although, many people have strong emotional experiences when they first begin becoming Christians.
Becoming a Christian isn't something that happens all at once, instantaneously. It is something that starts in your life and grows in you as you cultivate a Christian life style. It is a process that continues your whole life. In some people it starts off strong. In some people it starts off weak.
You don't become a Christian by doing something. Christians do not
believe you become a Christian by doing things for others. Christians do
things for others because of the life changing experience they have had
with Christ and his ideas. The understanding, insight, and belief comes
first and that is what makes one a Christian. The doing things for others
results from this.
Copyright © 1999 Steve Falkenberg