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Friday, June 5, 2026

What is a Christian?


  1. Is a Christian one who only needs to belive correctly (Jn 6:29; Jas 2:19)?
  2. What does a Christian experience (Jn 14:16-17; 15:16; 16:8-10; Rom 8:9)?
  3. How does a Christian live (Mt 25:34-36, 37-40; 7:21; Jas 1:22; 2:17-18)?

A Christian is not one who just believes correctly (Jn 6:29; Jas 2:19), but who also experiences it (Jn 14:16-17; Rom 8:9) and lives it out practically (Jas 1:22; 2:17-18). Thus, a Christian must have Orthodoxy, Orthopathy and Orthopraxy, and expressed as Logos, Pathos and Ethos.

Information (Objective)

Head (Orthodoxy)

Thinking

Cognition (Logos)

Experience (Subjective)

Heart (Orthopathy)

Feeling

Emotion (Pathos)

Reality (Empirical, Observed)

Hands (Orthopraxy)

Doing

Volition  (Ethos)

The core central communication and proclamation of the four Gospels is the Kingdom and the Cross

The story of Christ in the Gospels is that of (1) Incarnation. (2) Kingdom. (3) Cross. (4) Resurrection. (5) Ascension.

  1. Incarnation (Jn 1:14).
  2. Kingdom (Mk 1:15; Mt 6:10, 33; Jn 18:36).
  3. Cross (Mt 27:35; Mk 15:24; Lk 23:33; Jn 19:18; 1 Cor 1:23; 2:2; 15:3; Gal 2:20).
  4. Resurrection (Mt 28:6).
  5. Ascension (Lk 24:51; Ac 1:9-11; 7:55-56).

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