That's a good question. To be honest, Christians
disagree about lots of aspects of their faith. What
I offer here is not believed by every Christian, but it is
believed today by many Christians across the world,
and has been believed by Christians for many
centuries. Of course, being old is no guarrantee
that it is right - but then, neither is being modern.
There are many creeds and confessions of faith already in existence,
but most of them have been drawn up by Christians and
for Christians. What I offer below is designed to help
people who are not already Christians the chance to explore what we
believe and why.
You will observe there is a progression in the main points
below. They do not follow on from each other in a
logical sense, but an understanding of the earlier points is
assumed and built upon in the later ones.
Some Additional Material
These next few links are not part of the Interactive Gospel
itself, but you may want to come back to them if you have time -
or maybe only look at the summaries if you are very short of
time!
People usually have only a few basic questions about any new
idea. The questions often go something like this:
Does it work?
Is it true?
Is it important?
Is it for me?
To answer the first, I can offer my testimony, and point to the
experience of countless Christians through the centuries.
Yes, it does work.
For the second, I touch on some of the relevant issues in the
'Interactive Gospel' below. But, in brief, I have been
investigating this for many years, and all the evidence points to
this conclusion: the gospel message, as taught and lived by Jesus
and the early Christians, is true and reliable.
For the third: it is almost unarguable that the gospel message,
if true, is the most important truth anyone will ever hear.
As for the last, that is partly up to you. To follow
Jesus, you must be prepared to change. But whatever your
social group or culture, you should be able to find a Christian
church which expresses authentic Christianity in your language and
through your culture. You will find, if you look for it, a
Christian fellowship or congregation (or whatever they call
themselves) where you fit.
Answering Some Objections
People raise many objections to the Christian faith.
I have tried to build answers to most of the most common
questions into the Interactive Gospel pages. However,
some questions don't seem to entirely fit in those pages,
so they are being addressed on this page.