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Why Be A Christian? Jesus You Are All Compassion, Pure And Wondrous Love You Are

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--image from advancingthekingdom.net ********************************************** This is one of my favorite lines from the great hymn, Love Divine, All Loves Excelling . Why would someone choose to be a Christian? You must really make this choice for yourself. It is deliberate and no one can do it for you.  No one "inherits" Christianity. It cannot be passed down like money, property, or heirlooms. You may inherit the practice of certain Christian traditions , but  you cannot inherit the status of Christian. As someone has said, "God has no grandchildren, only children." You should be able to look back to a place and  time in your own life   where you made a conscious choice to turn over  the reigns of your  life to God, a time when you admitted you had  a sin problem you could  not solve, a time when you asked God to  solve it for you. In most  cases and barring certain illnesses,  we remember ma...