Living the Christian Way
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There is a deeper meaning of being a Christian than just prayers and adoration for Jesus Christ. Since time immemorial has long been evident in the lives of many people in the world who believe in prayers, sins, heaven, hell, prophets, and miracles. Jesus of Nazareth’s famous crucifixion and resurrection came to be known for the believers, thereby calling him Jesus Christ.
So what’s more with the now largest religion in the world? A faction that is so large with almost 2 billion followers, this most prominent and dominant religion in the western side of the world having different varieties of belief forms and practices has centered its faith to Jesus Christ. Thus, it is called Christianity.
Christianity is based on several key aspects as described below:
- Living the Christian Life – It is how the way people should live according to Jesus Christ and with accordance to the teachings of the bible. The most common manifestations are the following:
- Prayer – It is not just a simple prayer but something from the heart. Prayers in secret are advised. With prayers, a Christian is said to communicate with God in order to create a personal relationship with Him.
- Discipline – A good Christian knows how to handle precautions; by this, it means self-discipline. A disciplined person is unlikely to create chaos and sins.
- Repentance – As the saying goes, “To err is human, to forgive is Godly.” It is innate in a man to be prone in committing sins but it is only through repentance that God will forgive the sinners. Sometimes making a U-turn is not really that bad for a person who travels along the wrong path. Turn around and repent.
- Service – To promote and improve one’s spiritual life, a Christian needs to provide service to others by which he can make use of his God-given talents and abilities to help them, especially the neediest.
- Evangelism – When Jesus Christ said to spread his teachings to the world, He meant to evangelize the world with Christianity. Thus, a Christian, at one point in his life, should evangelize others to the word of God. This is the way Christianity is spread over the globe.
- Fellowship with God – Jesus Christ has only one great commandment and that is to build a better personal relationship with God. The only way to do this is to love God and thy neighbors above all else.
- Living away from Sins – The challenge of sins has always been the problem of humans. By being a Christian, it is a challenge to stay away from them and become a person worthy of emulation by doing good deeds and abiding the commandments of God and the teachings of the Bible.
There are also beliefs that distinguished Christian among other religions in the world. Some of them are:
- The Christian God – this is a belief that there is one great Creator.
- Jesus Christ – the belief of God the Son.
- The Virgin Mary – Jesus Christ’s Mother.
- The Trinity – that God is in three forms: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
- The Holy Spirit – God the Holy Spirit.
- Human Nature – the creation of human in the bible version of Adam and Eve.
- Angels – the cherubim in heaven.
- Devils and Demons – the forces of evil.
- The After Life – the life after death: purgatory, hell, heaven.
- Heaven – the kingdom of God.
- Hell – the kingdom of Satan.
There are also practices that sort Christians from others. Common practices are:
- Baptism
- Honoring the Saint
- Praying the Rosary
- Marriage
- Sainthood
With all these beliefs and practices, a normal Christian should be able to do this by heart and by soul for it is already manifested in them by the time they are conceived in their mother’s womb until the time they will return back to the ashes and face the life after death. Living the Christian way is not simple but there is no other way to live the life in this world where everything is just a means to an end. Following Christ’s life is the only way to heaven — It is just a one-way ticket, a sure ride, so to speak.
