Submitted by Tommyand Susie on February 12, 2009 - 8:22pm.
Steve
Take a look at the passage in Matthew, if you will notice the people to whom Christ is refering to are stateing their works as the criteria for their righteousness thus they are trusting in what they have done and not what Christ has done. The name Christian does not need re-invented the people using the name need to be born agian, I can say all day long that I'm from Australia and go around trying to talk like one and look like one but it wont make me one. Christ is to be in us and we are to be yeilded to the Spirit so that our lives are a reflection of Him. He must increase and we must decrease. Just because some one calls themself something doesnt make it so. To be a follower depends on what you do, To be a Christian is to depend on what Christ has done for you." Come to me all that labor and are heavy ladden and I will give you rest". We have to cease from our labor to be righteous, and put our faith in Him and what He has done.
Steve
Take a look at the passage in Matthew, if you will notice the people to whom Christ is refering to are stateing their works as the criteria for their righteousness thus they are trusting in what they have done and not what Christ has done. The name Christian does not need re-invented the people using the name need to be born agian, I can say all day long that I'm from Australia and go around trying to talk like one and look like one but it wont make me one. Christ is to be in us and we are to be yeilded to the Spirit so that our lives are a reflection of Him. He must increase and we must decrease. Just because some one calls themself something doesnt make it so. To be a follower depends on what you do, To be a Christian is to depend on what Christ has done for you." Come to me all that labor and are heavy ladden and I will give you rest". We have to cease from our labor to be righteous, and put our faith in Him and what He has done.