Question: In our modern age 'Christian' is a vague and undefined word. Everyone has his own opinion as to how a person can be saved. I would appreciate your insight about who the real Christians are.

Answer:I agree wholeheartedly with your comments about the abuse of the word "Christian". I'm reminded of Jesus' warning: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

Broadly speaking, there are two major areas where one can go wrong, namely, in the understanding of the Gospel, and secondly, in the experience of the same Gospel.

Satan has so clouded the truth of the Gospel that many individual Christians and churches do not even have a correct intellectual understanding on God's message of salvation. They may speak of grace and faith, but they really depend on their works and morality as a means of salvation. Like the Jews of old, they are "ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, (and so) have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God" (Romans 10:3).

On the other hand, there are those who may be experts in Christian theology, and can give you a brilliant lecture on justification by faith alone, and yet know nothing experientially of the grace and power of God in their own hearts. Their hypocrisy and delusion will be exposed in the day of the Lord: "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:23).

Let us be careful not to fall into either one of these deadly traps!