“R” YOU A REAL CHRISTIAN?

I’m sure you have heard of “AI” – artificial intelligence. It’s a very real thing that many folks are greatly concerned about these days. While I don’t dispute many of the unique and wonderful uses for “AI,” there are also many inherent dangers!

One of the major problems people are discovering now are communications that appear to be from someone well-known, or an individual you have a personal relationship with – but the communication is actually artificially created, with the intention to deceive you or to convince you of something.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new in Christianity. There have always been people who have told others that they are a Christian, but in reality, they are not a believer in Christ at all. They may know the look and the talk, but the reality falls far short of what a REAL Christian is.

In the Bible, we find that believers in Christ only began to be called “Christians” a good while after the resurrection, in the city of Antioch. Acts 11:26 tells us that “the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” The people in that city recognized certain specific characteristics of these “Christ followers” and coined the term now used to describe us – Christians.

And that begs the question – are YOU a real Christian? This Sunday we will answer that question by sharing four key characteristics of all true Christians! And, yes – they all begin with “R”!