What is Christianity?
| Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity).
The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man.
He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God.
Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus.
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October, 15 - Daily Devotions
October Scripture Portion: Matthew chapter 1 - Luke chapter 22 including the Gospel according to Mark.
The feeding of the 5,000 is recorded in chapter 6. There are many lessons we can learn from this portion of Scripture. We see in it what can be done with one life totally yielded to the Master. A small boy had five loaves and two fishes. But, more than that, he had a willing heart to give what he had to the Master. This is a familiar portion of Scripture. Verse 42 says, "And they did all eat, and were filled." Also, twelve baskets full of fragments were left over. What a lesson for us today! If we but totally yield all we have to the Master, He can multiply it. He can do over and above our expectations with what we may believe to be a limited talent. Dwight L. Moody once heard Henry Varley say that it remains to be seen what can be done through one man who is totally yielded to God. I trust that if you are not completely yielded to Him, that this might be the time when you will say, "Lord, take my all and magnify it for your honor and glory." When we can, from our hearts, pray that prayer, we begin learning what abundant living is all about.
MEMORY VERSE FOR TODAY: Man now can be: Righteous.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
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