real stuff

 

Religion has to do with form, formalism and formulas;

ritual, rules, regulations and rites; legalism, laws and

laboring. The “good news” of Christianity is that it is not

what we do or perform, but what Jesus has done and is

doing in us. Jesus exclaimed from the cross, “It is

finished!” (John 19:30). The performance is hereby

accomplished! Jesus has done all the doing that needs

doing for our regeneration, and continues to do all the

doing that God wants to do in us.

 

 

The early Christians were not propagating a beliefsystem.

They were not dispensers of theological

information about God. They were not Book-bearers. They

were bearers of the Living Word, the Life, the Person, the

Power of Jesus, "who is the Spirit" (II Corinthians 3:18).