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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November, 16 - Daily Devotions
November Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Luke 23 - I Corinthians 10, including the books of John, Acts, and Romans
Bible STUDY: READ ACTS 12--13
Chapter 12 describes the close of Peter's ministry as far as the leadership of the early believers is concerned. We do not read of Peter again until he gives his testimony, in support of Paul, in chapter 15.
In chapter 12 we see the power of Satan (verses 1-4); the power of prayer (verses 5-19); the power of God's wrath (verses 20-23); and the power of God's Word (verses 24,25). It is significant to note in this chapter that God delivered Peter, while James was permitted to die. God works in different ways His own. This should be a lesson to us to never question the judgments of our Lord. He was glorified in James' death, just as He was in Peter's deliverance. Isaiah 55:8 tells us, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." We should never question the sovereign will of God in our lives.
Chapters 13--28 cover a period in which the Gospel of the grace of God is preached to the Roman world, and local churches are established through the ministry of Paul. Chapter 13 covers somewhat of a new beginning of a new ministry from a new spiritual center--Antioch in Syria. This chapter also covers Paul's first missionary journey and his first missionary sermon. In verse 39 we read, for the first time in Acts, the wonderful Word JUSTIFIED. Justified means, "Just as if I had never sinned," and it is the position of standing for everyone who has, by faith, received Jesus Christ. They stand "just as if they had never sinned" before God.
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