Comments on: Christians: What Truly Makes You a Christian? Exploring Faith, Love, and Transformation. https://thyblackman.com/2025/01/16/christians-what-truly-makes-you-a-christian-exploring-faith-love-and-transformation/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:26:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Becky https://thyblackman.com/2025/01/16/christians-what-truly-makes-you-a-christian-exploring-faith-love-and-transformation/comment-page-1/#comment-632783 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:26:34 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=128611#comment-632783 Well you made some interesting points. Like me, you parse things out. I did not like you telling this person “You have no clue about who Jesus Christ is and what He came to do”. That is harsh and unchristian like talk. In replying I think Jesus would have come alongside this person and show how they might view things more expansively. That is the brilliance of God in the form of Jesus. Also God loves everyone, even those who have not heard the good news or cannot hear it. We all have things in our lives that we would want changed such as cancer, miscarriage, illness, financial failures, marriage incompatibility and betrayal etc etc. I tried to “obtain” these blessings. Life gives and it takes no matter who you believe in and no matter what culture you live in. You work and ask God for help in every situation. As is stated Psalm 91:15
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. So no matter who you believe in, God will answer you. So it is obvious, the Psalms where written before we all knew about Jesus and God said call upon me and I will answer you. That is comforting and it is true.

]]> By: Olusola (Michael) Elliott https://thyblackman.com/2025/01/16/christians-what-truly-makes-you-a-christian-exploring-faith-love-and-transformation/comment-page-1/#comment-625845 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:22:24 +0000 https://thyblackman.com/?p=128611#comment-625845 Hello Sir.
I pray that the presence and influence of Our Lord Christ Jesus remains on you. Thanks for sharing this dissertation, it provoked and excited me at the same time and I felt compelled to respond as led. Hardly do I ever read stories on national syndicated platforms and feel obliged to respond. Frankly, I feel like there are other forums that are better suited to my contribution. Nevertheless, I am under obligation and obedience to share my feedback on this very important subject, and I hope my response with be cordially entertained. If anything, that is shared comes across as challenging, please receive with a heart of love and humility. I strongly believe that we are all trying our best to be followers of Our Lord Jesus.

Let me share a bit about myself. I am a born-again believer in Jesus Christ and more importantly, I am a STRICT follower of Christ Jesus. I capitalized the word “strict” for a reason, and that’s to follow Him as a disciple not as a Christian. And there a is big world of difference between those 2 titles. From a Christian perspective, you eloquently shared what is required to be a Christian and I believe that’s exactly what the problem is with the Christian religion known as “Christianity”. If I may, please let me try and define what a Christian is and to use some of your definitions above. A Christian is someone that heard a message about Jesus Christ and all that Jesus came to share with the world, and they become fascinated with the message and faithfully responded accordingly, and from that moment, they consider themselves a Christian. Some may be filled with the Holy Spirit, some may not but they still consider themselves Christian.

Your case study is a very good example, and I have met so many people in such state of confusion and ignorance. Personally, I do not blame such people. If they have not been trained well, how are they supposed to understand? And if they have not been chosen and sent with the right message, how can the rest know the truth? Christianity as we know it and you rightly shared is about some of the truth and not the whole truth. Let me explain. Jesus Christ is the Life Source of Christianity and anyone that debates that is ignorant of the truth. There’s nothing I can do to help such a person. Secondly, Jesus Christ came into this world to establish not a Religion called Christianity but to establish a Kingdom known as Kingdom of God. This is the entire focus of Jesus Christ Ministry. His redemptive missionary project was to come into our world, from an invisible world known as Heaven and to recruit sons and daughters, who would FIRST believe in Him and secondly, follow Him into the Kingdom. This is what is at the heart of Jesus Christ message – The Kingdom of God here on earth. (Mathew 4:17)

I read your piece above very well and nowhere did I find any reference to the Kingdom. And that my friend is what qualifies you as a Christian, the lack of Kingdom Theology. You have no clue about who Jesus Christ is and what He came to do. To follow someone is to follow them wherever they lead or instruct you to go. Jesus Christ came to make a way available for believers in Him to enter the Kingdom here on earth and enjoy a life free of illnesses, diseases, corruption, addiction etc. That is what life and life abundantly is about. All a Christian has been trained to do is to believe in Christ Jesus and that’s the end of their faith. And just like you, a Christian will sometimes reach out to others in the name of Jesus Christ to offer invitation to believe in Jesus. But they seldom share with people the message of the Kingdom. Which is the only message Jesus came to preach (Luke 4.43).

I want you to do me a favor; can you ask yourself when was the last time you heard a Christian preacher or Pastor preach on the Kingdom? However, what you hear from a Christian Pastor is all kinds of message apart from that which Jesus instructed us to preach. (NIV – Mathew 10.6)

As you rightly pointed out, Christianity is a Religion. And you are absolutely correct. Christianity is nothing more than other religions such as Islam, Buddhist, Scientology etc. Jesus never came to establish a religion but a Kingdom. I pray that you research this revelation and position yourself under the authority of the Holy Spirit to bless you with a spirit of revelation and wisdom in the Knowledge of Christ Jesus. The only way you know and advance your knowledge is through the Holy Spirit. I encourage you to stop being a Christian and to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all that you are seeking in your life will be added to you. That’s the life in the Kingdom. Some people are living that life daily as Kingdom citizen, as ambassadors from another place here on earth. Kingdom citizens understand their place here on earth, that they are here in the world but not from here. And there is no Christian bone or sentiment in their lives.

Thanks for reading.

May God bless you with the spirit of revelation and wisdom in the Knowledge of Christ Jesus. Amen.

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