Do I Need to Clean Up My Life Before Becoming a Christian?

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What It Means to Become a Christian

The Rapid Bull. Daily edition. Where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.

Sometimes people ask, do I need to clean up my life before becoming a Christian? And what this actually does is show a confusion on what it means to be a Christian. And we can understand this confusion because every man-made religion is going to be a system of morality.

Being a system of morality, they're more focused on doing good things and not doing bad things. And that's the thought that Christians should somehow be perfect or the thought that Christians have to be people who are living generally, morally better than everyone else.

That's not what makes a person a Christian. A Christian is not someone who is better behaved than other people, though they should be after they become a Christian. When we say about becoming a Christian, that point when we go from not being a Christian to being a Christian, that point is one where it doesn't take cleaning up our life.

In fact, it takes the recognition that our life is a mess, that we are sinners and cannot save ourselves. That's what it first takes to be a Christian. We have to recognize we're sinners in the hands of an almighty God who is just and holy, and therefore we can't do works to pay for it ourselves.

We have to rest upon him. So becoming a Christian is when we turn from trusting ourselves or our good works or our genealogy and trust in Jesus Christ and him alone. That's what it means to be a Christian.

And therefore we can't do good works to be a Christian or clean up our life to be a Christian. We have to trust in Jesus Christ alone.

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