Every Sunday morning, many people in this nation get up, drink their coffee, drive to their church of choice, quote John 3:16 and Romans 10:9 and believe that's all there is to "being" a Christian. But what does this really mean and is there a difference between believing and becoming? Yes, we can all believe that Jesus died for our sins, confess with our mouths that God raised Him from the dead and that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords; but then, a little more than a century ago slave masters believed this same thing... those who believed a black man was only 3/5 a human being... confessed this too. So how do we reconcile that?

Some say those who call on the name "Jesus" will be saved - that there is no other name given in heaven or on earth by which we shall be saved and that no man comes to the Father but by Him. And that is fine, but you know who else loved Jesus? Hitler did. In fact, he was so devoted to that name and to the man that he decided it was acceptable to attempt to put an entire race of people to death in order to avenge Jesus' death. The KKK has the name "Jesus" in its by-laws. So where does that leave us? Apparently, there are a whole lot of people, both in the past and at present, "believing" and confessing the name of Jesus without really "becoming" like the Christ.

In order to "become" a Christian, is it just a matter of confessing a name, or must we also take on His nature? If we are His disciples shouldn't we do the things He did? Treat people the way He treated them? Is it just a matter of believing in a person, or must we dig deeper to find and then to develop the presence of Christ within ourselves?

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