What Makes Someone A Christian?

Our film crew spent some time on the streets asking people how someone becomes a Christian. We encountered a few Christians who knew, but not one non-Christian understood how someone becomes a Christian, or what a Christian is.

What is a Christian? Someone who believes in Christ? No. Even the demons know Christ and they tremble in fear.

How does someone become a Christian? Get baptized? No. You are born as a Christian? No. Go to church? No. Say a prayer? No, none of these. There is actually nothing you can do to become a Christian. Nothing.

You become a Christian when you recognize you have broken God's laws. When you recognize that Jesus Christ is God - the one and only God who created the heavens, the earth and you. When you turn away from breaking God's laws and toward obeying God. When you trust that Jesus Christ died to pay the penalty for your sins (breaking God's law) and that He rose from the dead, showing us the path we'll be following. This also defines what a Christian is... someone who believes this.

Where does this belief... this trust in Jesus come from? It is a gift from God. It is free. You don't have to do anything. That is how much God loves you. He died, paying the penalty for everything you've done wrong, and He gives this to you as a free gift. Say yes to this gift.