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What does an authentic Christian look like?
How can you tell if someone is a Christian?
Does that matter?
More importantly how can you be assured that you are a Christian?
Intro
Easter: What is Easter?
What is it we celebrate today? a time of egg hunts and fluffy white rabbits?
There seems to be a time of confusion in the church and the message to the world.
Hodgepodge of religion, truth, and fable.
What is the message of the church to the world?
Are we being authentic Christians?
Has the church been teaching people wrongly?
So often we look for extraordinary ways to share the gospel message.
We get cute, we get creative.
Yet, so often the way that God has established is so simple and ordinary.
Drama
A glimpse into the beginnings of the church and the most basic principle of its necessity
Peter and John just healed a lame man
Peter shares why they did this through a sermon ()
Peter responds to the council of Ruler and Elders ()
They were jailed
Yet, through all of this God still worked - the church continued to grow
Acts 4
Then the rulers asked: by what power do you do this?
Peter and John through their actions and words attested to the Kingship of Jesus!
Something supernatural was happening that would forever change the world
Martin Lloyd Jones calls this a phenomenon
There is nothing that has so affected this world as the Christian message.
Has anything in the modern world turned anybody or anything upside down, let alone the world itself?
No, a lifeless religion is not Christianity.
New Testament Christianity is life-giving, dynamic, and challenging—a phenomenon.
A phenom in the baseball world who will come onto the scene and turn the baseball world upside down.
A five tool player that will earn all kinds of money and change the game.
Chipper Jones, Bryce Harper, etc . . .
Our message is the witness of Jesus Christ work - specifically his resurrection
Jesus is the cornerstone and foundation of Christianity
He rode in on a Donkey and now sits and the right hand of God
He is King and this is his world
And only he brings salvation to the world
The Christianity of the early Church, I would argue is not the Christianity many of us espouse today.
What does it mean to be an authentic Christian?
Doctrine
Christianity is a phenomenon that brings real change
Lot - Goes out and tells people that he angels of the Lord are there to destroy the wicked city.
In this sense he is a prophet.
But, even his family took him as joking.
There wasn’t a seriousness to the threat.
Jeremiah
The world needs a people who have experienced this real change to share with them this very change
Christianity is not something that we do; it is not something that is in any sense dependent upon us.
App: Praise God that you have been raised from death unto life and been made a new creation.
Christianity is a phenomenon that brings a real message
Our message is not:
Peace
Social Justice
Moral living
gained through knowledge, status, merit
Our message is the gospel of Jesus:
Jesus came to die for his people and save them through His work of death, resurrection and ascension.
He will complete this work in the final consummation.
The message is simple, yet the world rejects it.
They reject it because it starts with the premise that they are sinners and in need of a savior
No one likes to be told they are in need
App: Praise God that you have been given ears to hear the message.
There is no greater message than the gospel needed by the world today.
Illus: News - many of us love news.
I think all of us love to learn something new.
Digital media has taken over paper media.
But, it isn’t the medium that we desire so much.
No, its the news.
Whatever we do as people of God let the message be consistent, the Good news about Jesus Christ!
He is Risen!
Christianity is a phenomenon that brings a real power
Not our own power but that of God
This power is not ours
Christianity is not something that we do; it is not something that is in any sense dependent upon us.
Here we touch upon the greatest modern fallacy.
We like to think that we can do anything and everything; we have the confidence; we have the capacity and the power.
But here at the very beginning, we are told at once that becoming a Christian is in no way dependent upon us and our power and capacity.
It is not a matter of our ability, understanding, and knowledge.
It is a supernatural power
not intellect
not status
not effort
And there is Christianity for you in a nutshell.
It does not depend upon us; it is a power acting upon us and in us and in spite of us.
Even Jesus makes this clear:
Doxology
What is a Christians and how do you know you are one?
Christians are a people who see that they have been changed in a very phenomenal, drastic and supernatural way.
Christians are a people who live in light of this:
Our worldview has changed, our thinking has changed, our hearts have been softened, our responses have changed . . . .
We should live as a changed people but the power of God who now live in His grace
Out of this the Apostles speak with boldness and answer to God rather than men
So often, we allow the people around us to dictate how we live.
We live out of fear.
We try to live on our own power.
We try to live in appeasement of others.
Some of us have fallen prey to seeking men’s approval and not even willing to offend.
Christianity isn’t about political correctness.
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