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

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Sometimes people ask, do

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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

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Christian. And we can understand this confusion because every man -made religion is going to be a system of morality.

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Being a system of morality, they're more focused on doing good things and not doing bad things.

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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.

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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

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Christian. When we say about becoming a Christian, that point when we go from not being a

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Christian to being a Christian, that point is one where it doesn't take cleaning up our life.

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In fact, it takes the recognition that our life is a mess, that we are sinners and cannot save ourselves.

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That's what it first takes to be a Christian. We have to recognize we're sinners in the hands of an almighty

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God who is just and holy, and therefore we can't do works to pay for it ourselves.

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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.

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That's what it means to be a Christian. And therefore, we can't do good works to be a

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Christian, or clean up our life to be a Christian. We have to trust in Jesus Christ alone.

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