Christianity Is Not A Religion

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Christianity is not a religion or philosophy but rather a love relationship and lifestyle. Most people believe that Christianity is a religion in which one has to earn the right to be reconciled with God. I believe that Christianity is a relationship between you and God, learning and understanding Him and through His Word understanding your purpose of life. In John 10:10 Jesus didn't say, " I have come that they may have religion" but rather "I have come that they may have life". Jesus Christ died on the cross so that we may have and maintain our relationship and fellowship with God. What we do for God is a reflection of our and fellowship that we have with Him.

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Religion is man’s work towards God,his ways and efforts to reach out to God. Christianity, on the other hand, is God’s work in man. It’s a call to oneness with Divinity. A walk with God in righteousness and a call to the transcendent life of glory and love.
A Christian is one in whom God dwells, a partaker of the divine nature – an associate of the God-kind. This makes Christianity so sublime. God wasn’t satisfied to merely be with or live amongst us, He chose rather to take up His abode in the quarters of our hearts and that’s the beauty and glory of Christianity. It’s the life of God lived out through you. It’s the unveiling of the Living Word in a human life!
Until and unless this becomes ones understanding of Christianity, all you have will be mere religion. The essence of Christianity, the reason we go to church, pray, preach the Gospel and do the things we do as Christians isn’t because we’ve embraced a religion, but because we have received God’s nature and His life. That’s what Jesus brought to us. He made it possible for us to receive eternal life, the indomitable, impregnable, “uninfectable” life of God: “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John

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