The Aunthencity of our Faith

In our discipleship class/ Sunday Service our big question was, what is the authenticity of our faith? What is our faith based on as Christians? Are we Christians because our parents are Christians? Are we Christians because we are not Muslims? In this generation a lot of us profess Christianity. There are millions of Christian faithful all over the world yet the world is heading down the ditch every single day. If we are Christians why are things not going on right? Why is the economy so bad? Why is there a lot of poverty? Why are there a lot of beggars in the street? Why are there a lot of orphans and widows suffering? More so why is the world so corrupt? It is either our Christianity is corrupted or our faith is not authentic. It is a prototype, not original. It is not based on biblical doctrine. It is baseless and it has been rated as just mere empty religion.

Another issue that arose was that we could be “hearer Christians” and not “doers,” as Christianity being a way of life- living right with God. No one is practicing or a few are practicing while a lot of people are just bus riding. Christianity is not a religion-religion is man-made. Many Christians have forgotten this fact and have turned Christianity to be just like other religions. Also, as the world becomes knowledgeable, people have become more and more corrupted with knowledge and they start questioning the source of knowledge-God; and the more they go astray and refuse to repent, such people brings about the doctrine of ‘Jesus was just being a good man’, and ‘God is not there” kind of stuff.

That is why we started our discipleship class with the first letter of John. We will be going word by word, checking on the application in our life and making sure that we bring our Christian living to the right path, and the authenticity of our faith be based on the Word - who was there in the beginning with God and was God, and in the word was life- the life we both live and abuse - most part of it having no fellowship with the giver of life.

As we read the first chapter we come across a lot of simple things like, Christianity existed from the beginning - one thing that a lot of us don’t know. If Christianity is based on the Word (Christ) or to be Christ- like and He was there from the beginning, then Christianity was there since the beginning. A fact many scholars deny as they state that Christianity just began 2000 years ago. The only way to be a Christian is to have a personal relationship with Christ (1 John 1. Whom we have heard and we have seen with our own eyes). This shows the extent we should be personal with Christ which the authenticity of our faith should be based on. Many people say they are Christians yet they have no personal relationship with the Lord.

As we go through this book, God is blessing us and we are finding a lot of things that will make us be better Christians for a better world. Pray with us so that God does great things. There was a huge turn out today - both men and women came to hear the word of God. We found out that it is not how big the church is or our good our worship band is, but if our faith is authentic-based on Christ, then we will make it.
So what is the authenticity of your faith??!!!