The apostle of old were first
called Christians because they were Christ like, they preached like Christ,
performed miracles like Christ. Christianity today is known as a religion that
bases its beliefs and teachings on Jesus. Once a person believes in Jesus he becomes a Christian. Absolutely true. The first thing that qualifies
you to become a Christian is to believe in Jesus – but believing alone is not
everything. A wolf in sheep clothing is certainly not a sheep.
That
a person bear a Christian name and goes to church doesn’t make him a
Christian. Below are few things to note about Christianity.
Christianity is more
than just a religion; it is divinity at work in a human being [Chris
Oyakhilome]. That’s what makes Christianity stand out from the religion world –
the holy spirit changed everything. Christianity is God in us and through us.
In the old testament, God was known as Emmanuel [God with us] but the holy
spirit changed everything in the new testament – God in us! Isn’t that
wonderful, God not only living with us but in us? That is why after one becomes
born again it is good that he or she be baptized with the holy ghost.
Jesus did not come to
give us a church denomination to belong to. The next question people do ask
after inquiring whether or not you are born again is “which church do you
belong to?” it is a good thing to be identified with a particular church
denomination especially a church that teaches genuine word of God. But you must
understand that Jesus did not gave us church denomination but rather a church
(gathering or body or communion or fellowship of believers). We must stop
seeing each other different just because we belong to different denominations.
We have one God one father and one Lord and we all have the same goal to be with God on the last day. Why see yourself more holy or righteous than the other fellow
just because he doesn’t belong to your church? Bible says “let no man think so
highly of himself”.
Christianity is a way of
life: the moment you become born again, God imparts his nature into your spirit,
it is up to you to walk in the light of that knowledge. You begin to talk like him
and do things like him because his nature is in you; His life style becomes
your life style. No wonder the bible enjoins us not to be conformed to the
pattern of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of or mind (by
reading the bible). The moment you became born again, your life style seizes to
concur with the life style of this world. All you have to do is live that life,
the life that is in the word of God.
King James BibleBut we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2Cor 3:18
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