What is Christianity?

• •Necessarily, Christianity is not a religion
• •Christianity means to be in relationship with God, ourselves, others, and the created order
• •Christianity is the person of Jesus Christ
• •the essence of Christianity is be in relationship with Jesus and through Him, relationship with all that we would otherwise be alienated from
• •Christianity is possible because of forgiveness, His substitutionary death for our sins, resurrection, and our resurrection through Jesus
• •We, finite personal moral human beings, have access to the infinite personal loving God because of the finished work of Christ in space, time and history
• •We are made to be in relationship with God, to love Him and others, to represent Him, and to be holy and glorify God.
• Faith is "to put ones weight down on the trustworthy character of God based on reasonable evidence" - Dr. Earl Palmer