Jesus had worked and walked with His disciples for three years, and it seemed to come to a calamitous and climactic end on a wooden cross, but on the third day Jesus rose from the dead. Appearing to His disciples and friends, He encouraged them to stay together, and to not put too much stock in His physical (though glorified) body, and to look forward to something else. Just before He ascended into Heaven, never to be seen in the body again, He said these words to His disciples, as recorded by Luke the physician in the books of Luke and Acts:

“Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” asked a young man, still breathless from running to the place where Jesus was teaching. The crowd had stepped back in deference, assuming him to be a ruler due to his fine clothing and confident bearing. Jesus squinted at the man and responded, “Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God.” He paused, still considering the young ruler, and then continued, “Thou knowest the commandments,

So many people are hungry and longing for a change in life, and have no idea how to find it. They try self help and retreats and drugs and therapy, and they may find some results from the multitudinous options at their avail, but no real, lasting change can come unless they meet Jesu

Sometimes the headiest, most intelligent people are the ones that get being Christian the most muddled.

So what is being Christian?

Why all these denominations?

Who decides who is and who is not Christian?

How are there Christian bands and movies and books and schools?

Truth is, only people can be Christian. To be a Christian is to be Christ-like (I know we’ve all heard this a hundred times, but bear with me). Jesus was a man - yes, he was God too, but He was very much a man. He got hungry and sleepy and weepy and upset just like men do. Anyways, we also know that Jesus was not a book or a band or a school or artwork or a movie, etc. His words did become recorded in the Bible, but He was not a book. More author than book. So to say that a book is Christian is silly. A book cannot be lost or saved or Godly - only people can.