Christianity? It’s all about Christ.

Christianity is built on Christ.

The Word of God, the Bible, the Book to read, is Jesus Christ: the Word made into flesh – the Revelation of God in the form of a man.

If we want to know about God, we can look at Christ. The boundaries of our definitions of God, our understanding, our theology, our spirituality, can be formed on Christ. If we who are Christian disagree with each other, we can look to Christ.

We are all brothers and sisters, with different ideas, different outworkings, different spiritualities: we are all unique, and human.

But Christ was the unique Son of God: One with God. Jesus makes God known to us: the wine can be seen clearly through the wineglass.

Through Christ we also can connect to God – through God’s Spirit, we can taste the wine of God for ourselves. Through Christ, we can see our own humanity more clearly – through Christ we can live, and breathe, and have our being.

I may love, as a human being: but with Christ, I can Love.

The Church is the Body of Christ: those people who have connected to Christ, by God’s Spirit – those people who love God, and Christ.

Worship is love of God, in many different forms: it is the love of God, through music, through a service, through the help offered to our neighbour, through the internet in poetry and real conversation.

Prayer is connection with God: through words, through wordless moaned need, through searching for God, through wrestling with God in pain and suffering, through inspired thought and feeling to be more than we are – through life, and through death.

Communion is connection with God: through the profundity of joining in Jesus’s sacrifice – the offering of his own body and blood in order to save us from our own flaws.

The Spirit of God fills us: the Spirit of God empowers us to be more than we are.

Christianity is Love: the Love of Christ, to seek to save humanity; the love of Christians for Christ, offering themselves to God in return.

Christianity is Light: Light, bright, lifted up high for all to see – Light, shining in the Darkness, shining in our darkness, that we might be changed and come to know God, in our hearts and minds, and become more like him.

There is a higher place: a place to aspire to, a place to find; a place dwelling with the mind and heart of God.

God can be found through Christ.

Author: Michelle

Michelle lives in New Zealand. She is a mother, a writer, and a doctor. View all posts by Michelle