Bertrand Okeomah

WRONG DEFINITION OF
CHRISTIANITY 1

Christianity is not the religion of those who worship in churches.
It is a relationship with God secured through the door of an
encounter with Jesus Christ who died for all men. 

Remarks: Many people think they are Christians just because they
worship in churches, especially on Sundays; or because they bear
Christian names, or because they had water sprinkled on their head
as infants in an event many in error call baptism. Others think they
are Christians because their parents are, or because they can hear
God or see visions. Some think they are Christians because they
give to God’s work, or were ordained or given one title or the other
in church. Not one of these acts makes one a Christian.
Believers were first called Christians in Antioch because they acted
like Christ (Acts 11:26). So you can’t be a Christian unless you act
like Christ. And no one can ever grow genuine character of Christ
who is not born again through an encounter in which one repents of
one’s sin and receives Christ as one’s Saviour. When Nicodemus
needed this encounter, he went to Jesus by night. He set out
praising Him for being a man who came from God. He said no man
could do the miracles Jesus did except God was with Him. He was a
great religious leader in Israel, probably in the mould of our Bishops
of today, but he didn’t know the God he worshipped. So Jesus
looked beyond his words and saw the void eating away his spirit and
said to him, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
I am sure the answer Jesus gave startled him. It touched the sore side
of his spiritual void. He must have felt there was no need pretending
before a Man who knew his heart. So he didn’t say, “You’re
Christianity is not the religion of those who worship in churches.
It is a relationship with God secured through the door of an
encounter with Jesus Christ who died for all men.