What is a Christian? (Ryan McGraw)

What Is a Christian?

What is a Christian? This is a truly vital question because never-ending happiness or everlasting horror hinges upon understanding the correct, biblical answer to it. Yet few questions have provoked so much confusion. Ryan McGraw lays out what it means to be a Christian in terms of what one believes, what one experiences, and what one does—a full-orbed Christianity of head, heart, and hands.

Perhaps you are investigating what it means to follow Jesus Christ.  Or, you are wrestling with the question of whether you are truly saved.  You may desire to grow as a Christian by getting back to the basics.  Or you may be seeking to help others with such matters!  Here are simple and clear answers from the Holy Scriptures.

About the Author

Ryan McGraw is pastor of First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Sunnyvale, California. He is also research associate, University of the Free State and adjunct professor of systematic theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  Ryan is author of How Can I Overcome Lust? and By Good and Necessary Consquence.

Endorsement

“What is a Christian?” is a vital and necessary question. Ryan McGraw tells us at the outset that the issues at stake are momentous, leading to eternal blessedness or eternal perdition. The author’s single concern is to explore the Bible’s answer to this question. In doing so he engagingly confronts us with what it means to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation. Read and be led, by grace, to Christ, the Christian’s sole hope and glory.”

— Ian Hamilton, minister, Cambridge Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, England