CHRISTIANITY, "True to its meaning"

Christians are often defined as a person who believes, trust, and has faith in God. A person who follows Christ.

But still we see that most of those who claim to be Christians do not exemplify the true meaning of Christianity.

Where then lies the hypocrisy of this claim? A lot of people claim to be Christian but if you closely look at the way they live their lives especially when they are not in a church setting and all the more when they are alone or in anonymity, you would say that they do injustice to the name of our Lord. Could this be a case of schizophrenia? Where-in people live two lives while in church they act as if they truly are followers. But upon leaving the church they get back to the normality of everyday lives. It is as if they have only visited God and has left him at the place they encountered Him. God seems to be confined in an institution where his people choose to visit Him once a week. We have limited the role of Christ in our lives as someone we claim to believe but still there are a lot about Him and of His teaching we doubt and have not fully resolved. We claim to trust Him but still a lot has been done to nullify the sacrifices that Jesus did for us by taking it upon ourselves to make our own way towards God’s redemption. Yet we still claim to have faith in Him but lack the hope through His words to hold on to.

Having Doubt in ones heart diminishes Belief. Having little or no knowledge as to the nature of a person makes trusting the same very hard. And Faith is not something that you conjure up inside you but it is something that is first initiated by a word of hope for which you will then hold on to. Therefore, one needs to take all doubts from their heart and believe. Then get to have an intimate relationship with our Lord to be able to fully know Him and trust Him. Then immerse ourselves in the word of God to attain words of Hope and promises that our faith can hold on to.

But still the true meaning of the word Christians as the suffix “ians” connotes when it is used in such words as Ephesians, Corinthians, Thessalonians and the rest of the “ians” which simply means people living in Ephesus, Corinth and Thessalonica respectively. Christians simply means people living in Christ and Christ living in them. So therefore Christ must always be within us and not just among us....