What Christianity Is

              Christianity is not a moral code.  It is not a system of beliefs.  It is a matter of being.  It is a mode of being.  Nor is it about going out and witnessing.  It is about being witnesses.  It is not about thinking about life.  It is a matter of having it and having it in abundance. 

                The secular world is right to reject us.  For we have not presented Truth to her.  A truth which is merely proclaimed and not lived is no truth at all.  Truth is personal, not merely logical in the scholastic sense.  Truth comes to us in the form of a person who proclaims Himself to be “the Truth.”  Truth comes to us today through the form of persons; persons who fellowship in and through His Holy Spirit.  Whenever Truth is not personalized, it is no truth at all because Truth has a person as its origin.

                We desperately need today to forsake the idol of doing church and we need to start being the Church.  For, it is not about what we do, per se, but about who we know, and who we are.  Our doing happens within the dynamic of a relationship that is freedom.  Outside of this relationship with the One who is Truth, all our doing merely leads to stark individualism.  Individuality and Christianity cannot coexist because not even God exists as an individual…for He is triune. 

                Christianity is the taking up the choice to be, to exist, while everyone else makes the choice for individuality.  Christianity leads to existence, leads to being, because it leads to love; and to love is to exist in the truest ontological sense.  Where love is not, existence is not.  Where love is not, individuality reigns.  Where individuality reigns, so does death.  Death is the outworking of individualism to its natural and immanent conclusion. 

                Thus, Christianity is freedom; the only freedom that can be found and realized.  True freedom is not to be found in the capacity to make one choice over another.  True freedom happens when death no longer has a hold upon you.  True freedom happens whenever we are not slaves to our sins, our passions and the “natural” order of this world.  True freedom happens whenever men and women are no longer slaves to the world and the idols therein but whenever they transcend the “natural” order of the world in the truest ontological sense.  He is free who is truly in the world but not of it.  He is free who has no fear of death.  He is free who belongs not to the habits and practices of this world, its lusts and desires.  He is free who, in his being, does not reject the world nor its goodness but transcends the ways of the world through communion, through love, through the God who is love.  A free person is one who communes with God.  For, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

                What is Christianity?  It is relationships that give us our existence; relationships with one another, the world, and the God who is a relationship in His being.  It is, thus, love.  Since it is such, it can’t be anything other than freedom; freedom to be.  Christianity is being because being is communion.