WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN IN A FEW WORDS.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN IN A FEW WORDS? Quite simply!

* JESUS IS LORD

* I AM HIS SLAVE AND ALSO HIS FRIEND

So to be a Christian means , Jesus is in charge in my life and I obey him.

Yes it’s a friendship based on total obedience. It’s all here:

John 15:14-

14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15 No longer do I call you just slaves for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have also called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Slavery to Christ is not a minor or secondary feature of true discipleship. It is exactly how Jesus Himself defined the “PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP” He must have with every true follower (John 12:26; 15:20).

In fact, the fundamental aspects of slavery are the very features of redemption. As True Christians can say:

We are CHOSEN by Jesus (Ephesians 1:4 “Even as he chose us before the foundation of the world”

We are ADOPTED BY Jesus (Ephesians 4:5 “He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ.

We are BOUGHT by Jesus (1 Corinthians 6:20;

“you are bought with a price”

We are REDEEMED by the precious blood of Jesus not by silver or gold. I Peter 1:19-20

We are OWNED by Jesus (1 Corinthians 6:19); “You are not your own, but bought by a price”

We are UNDER His will and control (Acts 5:29; Philippians 2:5-8);

We are CALLED to account by Jesus (Romans 14:12);

We are EVALUATED by Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:10); h