The 9 Characteristics Of A Christian According To The Apostle Paul

Like it or not, the apostle Paul is the de facto leader of the Church Age, and ‘what he says goes’ because that’s the commission he was given personally by the risen Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus. According to the testimony of Luke, Paul preached the same kingdom of God that Jesus refers to in John 3. From the book of Romans all the way to Philemon, Paul gives us our ‘marching orders’, what the Bible calls ‘doctrine’, and it is in there we find the biblical qualifications of what it means to be a Christian. On this episode of Rightly Dividing, two thousand years later, the apostle Paul remains somewhat of a mysterious figure, and a man hated by Roman Catholics, Hebrew Roots and all the other cults, and forever taken out of context by the hyper-dispensationalists. There is no better picture of God’s grace than picking the man who has been murdering your followers, Saul, and appoint him as their leader. Yet when you read the Bible, Paul is an open book and not mysterious at all. In fact, he’s one of the ‘plainest people’ you’ll ever meet. In our Bible study tonight, Paul lays out 9 characteristics, or qualifications if you will, of what life should look like if you’re claiming to be a Christian. Let’s see how you match up to that!