How to be a Christian
Pastor Amaya Stewart
1/8/2024
My leader, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn, has been stressing the importance of reading your Bible! It is so important because the Bible is a living and breathing manual on how to serve God and love and live right. I was praying and I was thanking God for how he didn’t leave us without any help.
Jesus could’ve said, "I died for you ... what more do you need," but God left us with the Word, the Holy Ghost, and he, God, speaks to us, and made it so we can have a relationship with him, and, not to mention, he blessed us with leaders to lead us.
If you read the Bible, a lot of times you see some of the same things, but in different scriptures. One thing I saw reoccurring was instruction on how to be a Christian or the Christian way. This is after you have confessed with your mouth and believed in your heart that Jesus died for you and rose from the ground and that he is Lord. Romans 10:9-10
”Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.“
Romans 12:9-18 KJV
"Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.“
Philippians 2:2-8 KJV
”But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.“
Galatians 5:22-26 KJV
These are a few examples and there are many more in the Bible, but what I’m saying is God has given us everything we need to make it! We can do it!
Love, Pastor Amaya