What Is (or Is Not) the Church?

What is Christianity? I can tell you what it’s not: 

1: Christianity is not a Bible verse tattoo on your arm 

2: Nor is it liking a cute Hillsong lyric

3:it’s not the one word in your Instagram bio.

4: it’s not doing good works in an effort to earn your trip to Heaven.

5: Nor is it your FISH bumper sticker

6: and it’s not a religion — one based upon rules. 

These are misconceptions surrounding our faith; and it would be impossible to list every single misconception about Christianity. 

So, what actually IS Christianity?

1: Christianity is submitting your life on a daily places to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, God’s Son. 

2: it is literally denying your own desires — your flesh, and instead, living for Christ. 

3: it is allowing the love and life of Christ Jesus to live His life through you.

4: it is sharing with others, your new life in Christ, as your testimony.  

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation” ~~ Romans 10:9-10 (CSB)

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