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I really believe that our actions alone don't make us Christians. To me is all about the change of heart and the passion to serve and love Jesus above everything else. Many people go to church and don't seek God wholeheartedly, many people read the Bible and choose not to follow it and also there's a lot of people who do good deeds that don't even consider themselves Christians. The way I see it it's realizing our need for God and choosing to obey him because of how great He is and how mercyful He is. Out of this love and our being thankful and wanting to know Him and live wanting to live as He wants us to, comes the rest. That's what I think 
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hi there. i think the song says it all "they will know we are christians by our love" yes, its good to go to church and yes its good to read the bible, but the greatest of god's gifts was the ability to love, and not only love, but love like Jesus did. that in and of itself makes a person a christian.
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Jesus made you His. You were bought with a price and sealed with that spirit of adoption, the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 3:14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
In relation to sin, these verses describe the relationship you have now with God through Jesus Christ as we walk through this valley of death.
1 Corinthians 6: 15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
As another poster hinted, they will know we are christians by our love.... for our neighbor as we love ourselves, but even then we need Jesus' help to do even that so that is why it is written, the just shall live by faith for Jesus is more than just Our Saviour, He is Our Good Shepherd in that He will lead us in the way we ought to go, helping us to live as His by faith. That is the only way we can know Him is by trusting Him to do His work in us after having us made as His.
John 6:28Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Philippians 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: ......9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. 11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Ephesians 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 John 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Pretty simple to live by that even a child can come to Him and they do, so it is by faith in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
In relation to sin, these verses describe the relationship you have now with God through Jesus Christ as we walk through this valley of death.
1 Corinthians 6: 15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
As another poster hinted, they will know we are christians by our love.... for our neighbor as we love ourselves, but even then we need Jesus' help to do even that so that is why it is written, the just shall live by faith for Jesus is more than just Our Saviour, He is Our Good Shepherd in that He will lead us in the way we ought to go, helping us to live as His by faith. That is the only way we can know Him is by trusting Him to do His work in us after having us made as His.
John 6:28Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Philippians 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: ......9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. 11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Ephesians 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 John 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Pretty simple to live by that even a child can come to Him and they do, so it is by faith in Jesus Christ.
Reading the bible alone certainly does not make one a Christian. Actually, since the bible is so easily misunderstood, it often leads to heresy. Doing what it takes to learn about Christian history, theology, and applying this knowledge to one's biblical readings, and ACTING OUT IN YOUR DAILY LIVING what you have learned through faith to know and believe, is what makes one a Christian. As Paul says, the greatest ....is LOVE.
To be a Christian is to receive God's word in good ground and produce fruit. If we are producing bad fruit or no fruit then we are tares and not wheat heading for the fire not the barn.
Matthew 13
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
2 6But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Matthew 13
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
2 6But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
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