Truth Living

The story our life choices really tell to the world

• What do you believe?

• How do you live?

• Who do you love?

John’s Tests of Real Christianity

"If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all."

J I Packer “Knowing God”

This is the kind of love God has given to those who believe in his Son: God sees them as His

children.

This is the kind of love God has given to you

as a believer, God considers you his very

own children.

John is saying to this church, this is how you

can tell an authentic Christian; they KNOW

they belong in the Heavenly Father’s

family now.

There are no Christian orphans.

When you believe in my Son, you

become my son. When you believe Jesus is my child, you become my

child.

Say this with me: I am a child of God. By faith

in Jesus I have become a child of God.

By believing in his Son, I have become of

God’s sons and daughters.

Ephesians 1:5 (NLT) 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family

by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it

gave him great pleasure.

"If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all."

J I Packer “Knowing God”

Truth Living

The story our life choices really tell to the world