Christian in Name Only (abbreviated XINO), also called a cultural Christian, nominal Christian, or more often, a liberal Christian, is someone who professes to be a Christian in public but has a considerable lack of knowledge about the basic tenets of one's professed faith, often "knowing" it only from what is half-remembered from Sunday school or from pop-cultural osmosis. To put it another way, a Christian in name only is someone who "would call himself a Christian, or be so regarded by others, but who has no authentic commitment to Christ based on personal faith.
This includes ignorance of the contents of the Bible in general and may specifically include not being able to name the Four Gospels, the Ten Commandments, or even the fact that Jesus Christ gave the Sermon on the Mount. They may hold beliefs contrary to the teachings of Jesus, including considering abortion, special rights for homosexuals, social justice, gun control, adultery, and cohabitation between unmarried people to be morally acceptable and following situational ethics rather than the absolute morality of the Bible.
They also might believe in other ways to attain salvation rather than accepting Jesus as one's Lord and Savior or otherwise dismiss core Christian doctrines regarding salvation, such as the need for forgiveness. They may themselves live according to lifestyle choices condemned by Scripture or hold up others who do so as good Christian role models, thereby rendering their Christian witness worthless or even damaging. When challenged on their views with quotations from Scripture, Christians in name only, if they believe in God at all, often respond with unsupported assertions as to what God really wants or with Bible passages that are "interpreted" beyond recognition.
Christians in name only, especially those motivated by liberal politics, have proved to be such an embarrassment that committed Christians are now seeking new terminology to replace the terminology that Christians in name only have appropriated and thereby distinguish themselves from Christians in name only.
An example of cultural churchanity... https://www.bitchute.com/video/kfC5IpWosGEt
Let’s be clear:
*People who do not believe that the Bible is God’s Holy Word are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that Jesus lived a sinless life are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that Jesus died on the Cross for the sins of the whole world are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that Jesus rose bodily from the grave are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that Jesus is God in flesh —man’s Creator and Redeemer— are not Christians.
*People who do not believe that salvation is by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ are not Christians.
*People who do not believe in obeying God's laws, calling it works, are not Christians.
If you are not hearing the above truths in the “church” you attend, GET OUT! You are listening to a false prophet.
Doers—Not Hearers Only
"Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit (look out for) orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." ~James 1: 21-27
Jesus Instructs His Followers
“If you love Me, keep My commandments." ~John 14:15
The Narrow Way
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." ~Matthew 7:12-14
“Behold, the days are coming, says Yahweh God,That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But a famine of hearing the words of Yahweh." ~ Amos 8:11
Why would God send such a famine of the word? You would think that God wants His words read and known.
The apostle Paul writing to Timothy gives us the answer.
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. ~ 2 Timothy 4:2-4
These two Scriptures reveal why organized denominational Churchanity exists today. Very few pastors teach the whole counsel of God, and rightly divide the Word of Truth. Instead they are hirelings who do not care about the Sheep. ~ John 10:12-13
Sad to say Christians in Name Only don't really want to learn Bible
Truth. They just want to be constantly reassured that what they "feel" and their
denomination teaches is true.