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Some people think that to be a Christian means you can't see movies, that you can't dance, can't have a drink, or that you can't have any more fun. That isn't true. Christianity isn't about rules and regulations to follow. It is about a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament times God gave the Law which had to be followed precisely. There were instructions about clothes, food, what you could or could not do on the Sabbath, what you had to do in the temple, how priests were to carry out their functions, how strangers were to be treated, how people were to be punished, etc. All these things were to be observed properly and precisely since all of them affected their standing before God.  That was in Old Testament times, but now we have Jesus and the requirements of the Law are no longer necessary for us in order to please God. Jesus came to earth to show us what God was like. God wanted us to see that He is real.  He knows how we feel because He, Jesus, was fully human, yet fully God.  He died on the cross to pay the price for our sins.  John 3:16 says " This is how much God loved the world.  He gave his Son, his one and only Son.  And this is why, so that no one need be destroyed, by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life." (message Bible)  " If you confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord', and beleive in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." John 10:9  Being a Christian means that you are changed on the inside, not controlled from the outside. It means that your heart has been changed by the presence of God. It does not mean that you are required to go to church, required to pay tithes, required to be good, required to do anything in order to stay a Christian. It means you desire to do those things because you've been changed.