I am a Christian ...

[MoreCoffee]

I am a Christian because I want to be. I am not a Christian because I saw God, heard God speak to me, read the bible, heard a sermon that convicted me, felt the Holy Spirit, or was compelled by the sheer force of logic and evidence to become a Christian. It's a choice like the choice I make when I decide to cook fish on Friday instead of bacon. I have reasons for being a Christian and especially for being a Catholic Christian but I am not going to claim supernatural revelation as the foundation for my faith.

So, what is your reason (or reasons) for being a Christian?

 

[seekingsolace]

I am a Christian because I want to be. I am not a Christian because I saw God, heard God speak to me, read the bible, heard a sermon that convicted me, felt the Holy Spirit, or was compelled by the sheer force of logic and evidence to become a Christian. It's a choice like the choice I make when I decide to cook fish on Friday instead of bacon. I have reasons for being a Christian and especially for being a Catholic Christian but I am not going to claim supernatural revelation as the foundation for my faith.

So, what is your reason (or reasons) for being a Christian?

I'm not sure the choice of believing in God is equivalent to decisions such as - how to cook a meal.

 

[psalms 91]

As a Christian I fully expect God to speak to me, to reveal things to me, and yes to operate in the gifts. It is not so much a choice as it is a knowledge that there is a supreme being called God. A choice makes it sound as if you could decide meat loaf Fri as easy as say I am a Christian

 

[Lamb]

Until we received faith we were spiritually dead...dead men can't choose. John 15:16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

 

[Josiah]

I'm a Christian because God gave me faith in Christ.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Until we received faith we were spiritually dead...dead men can't choose. John 15:16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

There's an interesting correspondence between the verse you referenced and another in saint John's gospel ...

You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name. (John 15:16 NJB)

Jesus replied to them, 'Did I not choose the Twelve of you? Yet one of you is a devil.' (John 6:70 NJB)​

The choice of the twelve may or may not relate to the experience of individual christians living today yet the context in the gospel according to saint John leaves one with the impression that verse 15:16 and 6:70 are about the twelve rather than anybody else.

 

[Hammster]

I am a Christian because I want to be. I am not a Christian because I saw God, heard God speak to me, read the bible, heard a sermon that convicted me, felt the Holy Spirit, or was compelled by the sheer force of logic and evidence to become a Christian. It's a choice like the choice I make when I decide to cook fish on Friday instead of bacon. I have reasons for being a Christian and especially for being a Catholic Christian but I am not going to claim supernatural revelation as the foundation for my faith.

So, what is your reason (or reasons) for being a Christian?

God saved me.

 

[Lamb]

There's an interesting correspondence between the verse you referenced and another in saint John's gospel ...

You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name. (John 15:16 NJB)

Jesus replied to them, 'Did I not choose the Twelve of you? Yet one of you is a devil.' (John 6:70 NJB)​

The choice of the twelve may or may not relate to the experience of individual christians living today yet the context in the gospel according to saint John leaves one with the impression that verse 15:16 and 6:70 are about the twelve rather than anybody else.

We can turn away from faith, thus damning ourselves.

 

[visionary]

Mine is not a theology but a reality.

 

[Brighten04]

I am a Christian because my Heavenly Father extended His grace and mercy toward me as a child. He called me out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 

[Pedrito]

It's against my religion to eat fish on Friday.

 

[MoreCoffee]

It's against my religion to eat fish on Friday.

How about Wednesday?