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How to Know if You're a Real Christian - Rural Reset 3/21 [5]
Host: TJ Freeman
Summary: In this podcast episode, TJ Freeman addresses common doubts about Christian faith, particularly focusing on questions of salvation and assurance. He shares his personal struggle with these doubts, triggered during his middle school years, and discusses how intellectual, emotional, and willful commitments are integral to genuine faith.
Key Points:
- Common Doubts in the Faith: Many people struggle with doubt. Some struggle because they are not a Christian and need to come to saving faith in Christ. Others struggle because they come up against something unfamiliar in Scripture or can't seem to overcome a sin struggle.
- The Importance of Assurance in Salvation: Even though doubt is a common struggle, it's wise to not push it to the back burner. Instead, doubts should be dealt with, examined, and taken to the Lord.
- Threefold Test of True Faith: This test helps people examine whether their minds, emotions, and commitments have been changed since becoming a Christian.
Listener Takeaways:
- Examine your life and pray! Christians are those have been changed by the gospel and are seeking to live for the glory of God.
- Christians, by the illumination of the Holy Spirit, are able to understand Scripture and see sin in themselves.
- Represent Christ wherever he has placed you so others can experience the joy of being a Christian.
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