- Repent from sins: After John the Baptist had been arrested, Jesus came into the Galilee proclaiming the Good News from God: “The time has come, God’s Kingdom is near! Turn to God from your sins and believe the Good News!” Mark 1:14-15
- Believe in Jesus means believe these facts: "Jesus Christ died for our sins, in accordance with what the Scripture says; and he was buried; and he was raised on the third day, in accordance with what the Scripture says." 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
- Believe in Jesus is demonstrated by living according to his teachings. Read and observe teachings as recorded in the gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John in the bible. These teachings are further explained and restated in the book of Acts of the Apostles and in the letters as well as in Revelation. See John 6:28-29 "Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires? Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- Christians are to live and express love, with love defined as not harming or ill treating people: “I am giving you a new command: that you keep on loving each other. In the same way that I have loved you, you are also to keep on loving each other. Everyone will know that you are my disciple by the fact that you have love for each other.” John 13:34-35 "Love does not do harm to a neighbor." Romans 13:10. See also 2 John 1:6: "Moreover, this is love: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!"
- Jesus, in his sermon on the mount (Mathew chapter 5, 6 & 7), lays out teachings that set out the new and true way of spiritual worship, teachings which corrected the mistakes of the Old Testament Law of Moses and instituted the more perfect New Testament spiritual life style from Jesus.
- Brothers Peter and Paul state more qualities that must be present in the christian character: "For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus the Messiah." 2 Peter 1:5-8 and "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, self control. Nothing in the Law of Moses stands against such things." Galatians 5:22-23
- Christians should avoid these, and more: "It is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency; involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!" Galatians 5:19-21
- There are many parts to christianity or many things christians have to do by way of living christianly. What I have done here is attempt to state what the lifestyle is.
- Please note, christianity is not attending church or doing church activities or even preaching or teaching the bible or giving or paying money to the church or ministers; rather, christianity is showing God's love to people, taking good care of creation. Of course, christianity requires church attendance, where possible. It does not, however, expect every individual to serve in a capacity. You do not have to serve in any office in the church. Pay attention also to the fact that you do not have to pay or give money to the church, if you do not want to. Please disregard and ignore any teaching requiring paying money or giving money to the church. "Each should give according to what he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God has the power to provide you with every gracious gift in abundance, so that always in every way you will have all you need yourselves and be able to provide abundantly for every good cause —"2 Corinthians 9:7-8
As well, you do not have to preach or teach. "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, since you know that we will be judged more severely. For we all stumble in many ways." James 3:1-2 - Blessings from God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
"May grace and peace be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord." 2 Peter 1:2 Purpose of Writing : An understanding of the differences between The Old Testament and The New Testament will help to illustrate the point that we are in The New Testament, and no longer in the Old Testament. This means we should live according to The New Testament teachings alone. Old Testament Worship - There was present one, only one, Tabernacle, later transformed into a sole Temple; a specific geographical location and site was approved for worship for the entire nation; a particular family, the Levites, was chosen to serve as ministers referred to as Levites and Priests; a singular High Priest was appointed who, up to a time, was also the temporal head of the nation. There were Prophets, appointed directly by God & who operated outside the system of Levitical priesthood & the Temple structure but who, at times, also were inside it or, somet
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