What is it that makes someone truly a Christian? According to Pew Research Center, the percentage of people who would self-identify as Christian in the United States today is 63%. (This number was as high as 90% in the 1990’s and 78% as recent as 2007!) This means two out of every three people you work with, go to school with, or run into at the grocery store identify as Christian. However, does merely identifying as Christian mean that one is truly a Christian and therefore truly saved? The answer would be a sad but resounding “no”! Jesus said some of the scariest words recorded for us in the Bible near the end of His famous Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 7:21-23 says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ “ What this is saying is that not everyone who calls themselves a Christian, is truly is a Christian or is truly saved. What this tells us is that being Christian isn’t just being one in name, but there must be a true change of the heart and relationship with Jesus. Join us Sunday as we continue our study in Romans and see that in Christianity, there is no room for hypocrisy or pride because no-one is saved by merely outward adherence or by being born into salvation, but by a true change of the heart.

Worship Setlist

• God is Able

• One and Only Jesus

• Set a Fire

• Great I Am

• Fresh Fire