Teaching

Blog entry from at Awaken by Scott Aughtman entitled Teaching Christ or Christianity

"I’m thinking again about an idea that I began thinking about last year.

There’s a dangerous flaw in the way some of us Christ-followers teach others about Jesus. It’s in the difference between teaching Christ and teaching Christianity.

What’s the difference?

Roland Allen revealed the difference in an old book from 1927 called, “The Spontaneous Expansion Of The Church.”

In the book, Roland says this, “Christianity, the doctrine, is a system of thought and practice: preaching Christ, the Gospel, is a Revelation of a Person.”

He later says…

“To make converts to a doctrine is to make proselytes. The proselyte abandons one system of thought and practice for another; and to adopt a new system of thought and practice is not the way of salvation.

“The Christian convert is a convert not to a system of doctrine but to Christ. It is in Christ that he trusts, not in any system of doctrine or of morals.”

We need to all ask ourselves this question: Which am I teaching? Christ or Christianity?"