True Christianity is not an intellectual exercise about more knowledge. It’s not something that you try on for size to see if it fits. It’s not a tradition in your family that you continue. It’s not about rules, codes, formulas, programs, and dead works. It’s not about a hierarchy of leadership when a group of people get together inside a building. It’s not about you trying to get right with God, and you trying to work your way to God.

True Christianity is about intimacy with God incarnate (in the flesh) in the person of Jesus Christ. It’s about God coming down to his Creation in the first century to die on the cross to work his redemption plan. It’s about a hard heart of stone that Jesus changes. It’s about sovereignly being born again by God. It’s about sovereignly being baptized with the Holy Spirit by God. It’s about sovereignly being saved by Jesus, and one day going home to be with him in glory in the highest Heaven because he is faithful to complete the good work he begins in you. It’s about an unreasonable and unfathomable mercy and love in light of a strict justice and judgment that all deserve. It’s about the extravagant gift of faith that lets you know that the finished atoning work of Jesus on the cross is enough, and you find rest. True Christianity is about the precious biological blood of Jesus spilled out to his biological physical flesh body sacrifice on the cross that paid the price in full for each and every member of his beautiful Bride. It can’t be faked, though so so many try.

What kind of love is this, that Jesus should die for ungodly persons that don’t merit or deserve his salvation, nor could they ever earn or initiate his salvation, no matter how hard they try? True Christianity is ultimately defined by Jesus, and not man and his devices, imagination, and institutions.