Our Daily Bread, Saturday, April 22, 1995

Read: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26


                             Real Christians


                          There are many members, 
                               yet one body

                              -1 Cor. 12:20

What does the word Yankee mean to you? Robert W. Mayer, in a Wall 
Street Journal article, writes, "To people in other parts of the 
world it simply means someone from the United States; to people in 
the United States it means someone from north of the Mason-Dixon 
Line; to us Northerners it means someone from New England; to New
Englanders it means someone from Vermont; to Vermonters it means 
someone from the Green Mountains."

The term Christian has taken on a wide range of meaning too. Some 
have even equated being a Christian with being an American. That's 
far too wide! But we who believe in Jesus Christ often make the 
definition too narrow. We describe as "real Christians" only those 
men and women who believe and worship exactly as we do.

Certainly sound doctrine is vital! There is no room for disagreement
over the fundamentals of the faith. But a "real Christian" is anyone 
who relies on God's grace and puts his trust in Christ alone as his 
only hope of salvation.

Believers share an enormous common ground with each other because 
they belong to an uncommon Christ. Don't reject real Christians-
brothers and sisters who have accepted Jesus' once-for-all sacrifice 
for sin.  -HWR

  Since God receives repentant souls
  Who've trusted in His Son,
  We too must love and welcome them
  Because in Christ we're one.  

  -Hess

  Don't reject anyone whom God has accepted.

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