What Does it Mean To Be A Christian?

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Many Christians have made January 1 about their new goals—their financial goals, their career goals, and their health goals—a practice you’ll never see in the life of Jesus or any of his apostles. While there’s nothing wrong with resolution making, it’s amazing how easily we forget Jesus‘s grand promise, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” It’s days like today which make it very evident whose kingdom we are truly seeking—His or ours. In this episode, Dale and Veronica discuss what it means to be Christian and what it means to have died and been born again?

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0:00.0	Hello, Dale Partridge here.
0:05.1	You're listening to an episode from the Real Christianity Archive.
0:08.9	Veronica and I originally began this podcast under the name Ultimate Marriage as a resource
0:14.3	for our online Marriage Mentor program found at UltimateMarage.com.
0:19.1	While our Marriage program is still a critical part of our ministry, after about 30 episodes
0:24.2	we decided to change the name of this podcast to Real Christianity as a way to widen
0:29.9	the scope of our biblical content.
0:32.5	That said, these are some of our most popular episodes, so please enjoy and stay with us
0:37.8	on the journey to bring the church back to the Bible.
0:42.4	Every 365 days we get another shot at creating a better year.
0:50.9	But in my experience, Christians set goals for health and finances and career.
0:58.3	GK Chesterton once said, the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
1:04.3	It is that we should have a new soul.
1:05.9	And I think Jesus affirms that position when he tells us to seek first the kingdom of
1:11.9	God and his righteousness.
1:14.2	And all these things shall be added on to you.
1:17.2	In this episode, Dale and Argonne talk about rededicating yourself and your marriage to
1:21.1	God's words, God's practices, and God's kingdom.
1:24.7	When we answer an important question, asking a parent should raise and discipline their
1:28.1	sons in a different way than you would their daughters.
1:31.0	All this is coming up today on Ultimate Marriage.
1:33.1	Hey, everyone.
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