We are off topic so....Whatever..lol
I’m a man because I was born a man. It’s birth—not behavior—that gives me identity.
In Christ's born again, I've been made a saint. Not a redeemed sinner. I now have the righteousness of Jesus Christ as my own, and I have a new identity. I'm not a sinner anymore. The sinner is dead, having been crucified with Christ. Now I am a child of God!
The New Testament calls us saint's 63 times. Saint means “holy one,”
Over the long haul, our behavior tells a lot about what we believe about ourselves. When we recognize who we really are, our lifestyle will glorify Him more and more. We aren’t sinners! By Christ’s work, we have been transformed into new creatures called saints.
I am not a sinner anymore. I am not suggesting that I never sin, but what I do doesn’t define who I am. I could act like a woman, but that kind of ridiculous behavior wouldn’t change the reality of who I am.
Kefa
I worship at home, in church, where ever I am, because God is worthy of praise.
I go to worship Jesus with a bunch of redeemed sinners like me in a local baptist church, where I am learning to look at the treasure within, though the vessels maybe flawed and fragile. I seek to be a blessing, to uplift and encourage.
It is so much harder to see what God is building and ignore the failure, than to respond in the flesh and get upset.
I get the impression the church is there to prepare us for what the world throws at us, if we cannot reach out to our fellow believers, we are not exactly going to do very well with the lost.
