What is Christianity and who are Christians?

Becoming Christian means, falling in love with Jesus. That is all.

Christianity is not a western religion with a new set of rules to live by. Christianity is an intimate relationship with God through Jesus. Christians are people from different culture who fell in love with Jesus. So, becoming Christian means, falling in love with Jesus. That is all.

We can compare our situation to a test with 100 questions each carrying one mark, with the required pass mark of 100. If we fail in one question, irrespective of all the good answers, we fail the test. In real life also, the holy and perfect God expects us to do only good karma and even a single bad karma in our whole life, separates us from God.

The easiest way to understand why people fall in love with Jesus is to realize our situation in this world. We can compare our situation to a test with 100 questions each carrying one mark, with the required pass mark of 100. If we fail in one question, irrespective of all the good answers, we fail the test. In real life also, the holy and perfect God expects us to do only good karma and even a single bad karma in our whole life, separates us from God. On our part, we can not do anything to remove the consequence of that bad karma. Any number of good karma can not mend the relationship between us and the holy God. But Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God, came down to earth two thousand years ago and died on the cross as a sacrifice for all our bad karma. Because of his sacrificial death, God is willing to establish relationship with us in spite of our bad karma. When you realize what Jesus has done for us, and when you see the awesome qualities of Jesus described in the Bible, it would be impossible to not love Jesus Christ.

What is the Christian way of life?

God is preparing a perfect place called Heaven for his children.

As per the Bible, God is preparing a perfect place called Heaven for his children. His children will be able to see God in all his beauty and grace and glory. There will be no pain, no tears, no sorrow and no death in the presence of God. The children of God in heaven will experience overflow of joy, love and peace. The Bible promises that this place would be awesome beyond our imagination. This is God’s future plan for his children. When Jesus came to the earth two thousand years ago, he inaugurated this plan. The Bible promises that the complete realization of this plan would happen in the future when Jesus comes back for the second time to this world again as a Judge of this world. Until then, there is a mysterious overlap and interlock of God’s future plan with our present time, which the Bible calls as kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven.

Even though we continue to live in the same evil world, God’s children in the kingdom of God are capable of experiencing glimpses of heaven. This is hard to describe but easy to experience.

When we become a child of God through Jesus Christ, we enter into this kingdom of God. Even though we continue to live in the same evil world, God’s children in the kingdom of God are capable of experiencing glimpses of heaven. This is hard to describe but easy to experience. Millions of Christians attest to this. When we worship Jesus, read the Bible or when we pray to Jesus, we get the foretaste of heaven. This is one of the greatest privileges of the children of God. This experience is amplified when children of God do these things together as groups. (These kinds of groups are called Churches even though most of the people mistakenly refer buildings as Churches).

Of course, we still continue to live in this evil world where. We will face problems and struggles. But with infinitely powerful God as our father, we can overcome them.

In short, Christian life is living inside this kingdom of God, experiencing and preparing ourselves and rescuing others for heaven. We gain all of this life because Jesus died for us on the cross. Didn’t we say Jesus is worthy of all our worship?