Christianity
Christianity is a term generally referring to that Christian faith based on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament Scriptures. The word Christian simply means "follower of Christ," first used in the New Testament in Acts 11:26: "And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians." Christianity is a monotheistic faith, believing in only one God. However, based on the teaching of the Bible, God has been revealed as a Trinity of persons, not to be mistaken as a belief in three gods.
Christianity regards the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) as the inspired word of God and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice. Early extra-biblical definitions of the Christian faith are expressed in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Multimedia
- God's Story From Creation to Eternity (ChristianAnswers.net)
- The Hope (Mars Hill Productions)
- Lessons in Christian Essentials (MP3s), by Wayne Grudem
Basic beliefs of the Christian faith
- The deity and humanity of Christ
- The bodily resurrection of Christ
- The doctrine of the Trinity (including the deity of the Holy Spirit)
- Salvation by grace through faith
- The second coming of Christ
- The inerrancy of Scripture
- Virgin birth of Jesus
- The existence of Heaven and Hell
- the Resurrection of the dead
- Life everlasting
Variations in beliefs
Christians have varying beliefs on predestination, baptism, the certainty of the believer's perseverance, the modern role of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, church government, and other things. Christians practice varying degrees of separation, but are all of one Spirit and one Bride.
Christian evangelism and Christian internet evangelism
Since its inception, Christianity has seen a consistent and dramatic increase in its number of adherents.^[1]^^[2]^ In the 1940's, the Lausanne Movement was started in order to help Christendom evangelize globally with greater effectiveness and thousands of Christian leaders from around the globe meet regularly to increase the effectiveness of Christian evangelism.^[3]^
Christian Internet evangelism
see also: Internet evangelism
Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI) is one of the world's largest Christian evangelism organizations within Christendom and has over 25,000 full time missionaries. In 2006, Alan Beeber of CCCI predicted that internet evangelism will result in more conversion that all other forms of evangelism for CCCI combined.^ [4]^