Why Christ Doesn't Need Christianity

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Just because Christianity claims Jesus as its own does not mean that Christ automatically claims Christianity as his own.

+Shane Hipps pulls back the curtain in this particular article and makes it plain about how the christian should look at religion. Especially their own.

He points out that it was not Christ's intention to start a "new denomination".  Christ's purpose was to reveal His Father and redeem mankind. That's it. While He may have known that his followers would have to have some degree of organization in order to carry on the mission He gave to them. He knew it was the mission and not the organization that had the pre-eminence.

John 3:16 stands as a good reminder: "God so loved the world"....not the church...

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