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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.