Answer:
The question is, "Just going to church doesn't mean that you're a Christian. Then, what makes us a Christian?"
Being a Christian means, you have Christ, the Holy Ghost, God Almighty, the Creator, living within you because you have repented of your Sin and of your sins (the results that happen because we are Sinners) and received the gift of God, eternal life through the blood payment by Jesus of Nazareth, the only naturally born son of God.
Explanation:
When someone truly becomes a Christian, they now receive the Holy Ghost, see Ezekiel 36:22-38.
That is the Christ part that brings the Anointing.
We cannot receive the Holy Ghost, the Anointing, if we are not born again. We are all born carnal, creatures of Sin, and so we cannot receive God on our own. God has to reveal Himself and when He does, through either reading the Bible or by hearing the preacher call us to Salvation, we then repent to receive Jesus. Then we become born again as, spiritually speaking we are a brand new creature. Not just an updated "Person 2.0", but, a completely different person. Our names are not written in the "Lamb's Book of Life".
God will take our old spirit (us) and give us a new spirit (us, but, now with new qualities). He also then gives us Himself, the Holy Spirit.
When that happens and we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the Christ:
1. Christ Jesus, who is the perfect Messiah, who paid for our sins through His own blood
2. the Holy Ghost, who brings the Anointing, also called, The Christening, which is what they do to new ships and yachts by smashing a bottle of wine against its bow, to bless that vessel.
#2 goes back to when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane. "Gethsemane" means "the place of a wine press (or) olive press". In that Garden, where He was about to be arrested to be scourged and crucified, He prayed so hard that blood came out of his skin's pores. This has been shown to be possible when people are under great duress, they sweat blood. In a very real way, the pressure Jesus was facing, to have the weight of the entire world's sin pressed down on Him, pressed the blood in His body out of his pores. He literally was being pressed, both in the sense of grapes being crushed to make wine, and, of olives being crushed to make anointing oil; anointing oil is used to heal the sick.
That blood He sweated was used, along with the blood that poured out on the Cross at His crucifixion, to pay for our Sin and for our sins. To become a Christian, one must obey what Jesus and the Apostles said must be done:
1. Believe with the heart that Jesus died for our sins and that God resurrected Him from the dead (Jesus being God, self-resurrected)
2. Confess with your mouth your belief
3. Receive Jesus's blood by speaking it
4. Get fully baptized (who is stopping you from doing that? It's pretty simple)
When you have received the Christ and been born again, you will now be a Christian.
(SORENSEN,2018)
