Words have many meanings, and it's important for us, especially the believers who follow Jesus, to know exactly how they are used in truth.
In this message we consider how God led Luke to describe the disciples. We'll find how the common phrase "Christian" is only used twice in comparison to the abundant others ways the Spirit of God identifies His unique people.
Think about it like this: The thought of someone being a "Christian" but not a "disciple of Jesus" is biblically unheard of and it holds absolutely no merit scripturally. But somehow, through the ages, it has become the norm and acceptable falsehood in our society and churches. If you listen to the lingo of the church, you'll hear that someone can be a Christian but not a disciple of Jesus. They endorse a lie that someone can become a "legitimate Christian" and later become a legitimate disciple, when they are ready to surrender to Jesus, but it is totally unnecessary, because only a claim of faith will suffice. Some go as far as saying they may never get to that point of being a disciple on their faith journey. And that is as ludicrous as believing someone can earn their own salvation by their own goodness. The new birth takes a non-disciple (a hostile to the gospel of grace) and makes him a disciple (a follower), who, as a new creature in Christ, now lives to follow and learn from Jesus and becomes a disciple-maker with Him.
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