The spirit of Christianity

Christianity is not a religion which promotes isolation. It promotes fellowship and unity.

Often in life we find there are goods which the value of is diminished when there are many examples. If there were a thousand Mona Lisa paintings each an exact replica painted by the same artist each painting would be of little interest.

Rarity often heightens the value of things in the world. Christianity it is the opposite. It is fellowship and sharing which heightens the value.

The nature of grace is that it is free and infinite. You cannot hide it in isolation if you have it. It must be shared.

Grace which is hidden is lessened because in hiding the grace we lose track of its meaning. You see we don't simply believe things because we believe them; we believe things because we do them.

If we hide grace and act as if it is not important to share eventually our understanding of grace will weaken and we will be the poorer for it. Grace which we do not have some desire to share is not grace which is properly understood.

Grace is most glorious when shared and sharing grace increases its worth, not diminishes it.

Value

In scripture there is a parable of a pearl of great price where a man sells everything he has to get the pearl.  This is the way knowing Jesus is.

Very few people are asked to leave everything to follow Jesus, but it is the fair price.  You see to have Jesus as our God, friend, and brother and to lose everything else is a good deal.

We of course are foolish people who stumble day by day and God loves us.  You see his love surpasses human understanding.  He loves us against reason and not because of it.  This is the depth of his love that he choose us while we were still enemies.