WHAT IS A 'CHRISTIAN' ?

The Cambridge Dictionary: Someone who believes in and follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. Though true, this cursory definition falls short of the Biblical view of what it really means to be a 'Christian'. 

The word is used three times in Scripture ...

Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. (Acts 11:26) 

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?” (Acts 26:28) 

However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. (1 Peter 4:16) 

Sadly, the term has been watered down to the point that anyone who goes to church is considered a Christian ... whether or not they've surrendered their lives to the Lord. 

Billy Sunday rightly quipped: 'Being in a church does not make you a Christian any more than being in a garage makes you an automobile'. 

A true believer relies on the sufficiency of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection alone to atone for his sin ... For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

A Christian's old nature has been taken out of the way to make room for his Savior ... I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

'Christian' ... an eternally redeemed child of God.