Becoming Christian

How does someone become a Christian?

Answer: by the act of regeneration that God alone can bring about in the core of a person. No one becomes a follower of Christ in any other way than through the new life that God grants to individuals. So, to such questions as, ‘At what age are you old enough to go to church, listen to a sermon, or study the Bible?' I would reply, when God grants you new life, that’s when you are old enough. Some receive the gift as a child (Henrietta Mears was 3 or 4); others receive it later in life (James Haldane knew a man who was converted while at the far end of his 90s). When God grants a person the new nature, that person is ready to sit under a Christian teacher and listen.

It should be noted that the wording of the question is deliberately ambiguous since I chose to speak in terms that people who aren't familiar with Christianity may understand. The truth is, no one becomes a Christian by his or her effort (a point that will become apparent in future comments). God converts us, we don't convert ourselves. So, we become Christian because God makes us so.