True Christianity

Reading this today and thought how true and how fooled many are today. Christianity is more than mere lip service and church membership but a lifestyle!

1 John 4:15 (KJV)
¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

[confess that Jesus is the Son of God] Much stress was laid upon this in the early church, because the Jews and many Gentile false teachers denied the reality of the incarnation. If one in those days accepted this, Christ's physical death to atone for sins, and the physical resurrection of Christ, he would likely accept Jesus as personal Savior. But in our day when Christianity is the accepted religion in our country such confession of Jesus as Son of God has become a mere form in many circles. People think that because they acknowledge this fact in public they are saved from sin and are true Christians. One can do this mentally and verbally many times a day without having a change in his life. One must believe from the heart as well as confess with the mouth (Rom. 10:9-10). If and when one does this he will be made a new creature in Jesus Christ (1Jn. 5:1; 2Cor. 5:17). True New Testament confession includes complete surrender of the life to God and consecration regarding future conduct that it will be according to the whole will of God as light is received (1Jn. 1:7-9; 2Cor. 7:10; Rom. 12:1-2).  - Dake's Annotated Reference Bible.