How can I know that I’m a Christian? This is a question most
of us have faced at one time or another, and even if we have not asked
it ourselves, it’s likely that someone has asked for our help in
wrestling through it. I recently came across an article from Michael McKinley that provides an interesting counter-question: How Can I know that I’m not a Christian?
In II Corinthians 13:5,
the apostle Paul commands his readers: “Examine yourselves, to see
whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize
this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”
OK, that seems
straightforward enough. But what does it mean to examine yourself?
What should you be looking for? How do you know whether or not you are
“in the faith”? What is the “test” that we might fail? I wrote Am I Really a Christian? in order to try to help answer these questions.
Well,
we should all hope that we pass “the test” (again, Paul’s words, not
mine!). And Scripture gives us a few things to look for that would
indicate that in fact we are not “in the faith”. A few examples: Examples Here...
