Real deal Christianity is about learning to set aside everything that distances you from God. It’s about avoiding anything that hinders your awareness of the living presence of King Jesus. It’s God’s kingdom ruling and reigning within you on earth as it is in Heaven.

Authentic Christianity is doing what Jesus tells you to throughout each day. It’s not a religious service that you sit through once a week. It is a lifetime of inner transformation that aligns your thoughts, word, beliefs, and behaviors with the will of God.

Actual Christianity is not about human effort or human understanding. It’s about God’s grace, revelation, and power deposited directly into an individual’s heart and mind.

Genuine Christianity is open and available to whosoever will personally and fully surrender his or her will and daily obey Christ. All who are willing to be graciously led by God’s Spirit instead of by their own desires, feelings, and opinions are invited to freely “taste and see that God is good.”

Spirit-led Christianity isn’t a religious institution. It’s not a church hierarchy. It’s not just being lectured every week about Bible information. It is Christ living in you and directing you day by day. When doing what God’s Spirit prompts you to do is replaced by passive sermon-hearing, Christianity is left undone.

God’s original Christianity is people who assemble themselves together in the name of Jesus (Matthew 18:20) — not in the name of a religious organization or denomination — to encourage one another and to “spur one another on to love and good works.” (Hebrews 10:24-25) It is Spirit-led meetings (Romans 8:14) where everyone present is free to speak (1 Corinthians 14:26)

Authentic Christianity is a never-ending, living experience with Jesus. Are you ready for that kind of real relationship with the risen Christ? If so, surrender your all to Him now.

If you are in the Nashville, Tennessee area you can experience such a Spirit-led meeting of “actually following Jesus” on Saturday mornings at 8:30. Just waze and go to Chile Burrito, 330 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37207. It’s just past Five Guys and everyone is welcome.