What Is Christianity?
At its simplest, Christianity can be summed up in one name: Jesus Christ.
The Bible puts it this way:
“No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11).
Jesus isn’t just part of Christianity.
He is its foundation—and everything built on top of it.
Take Christ away, and Christianity collapses.
Like a house without footings.
Like a story without a main character.
Like a compass without north.
Like a body without breath.
Christianity, then, is not first about ideas or rules.
It is a response—an appropriate, personal response—to who Jesus is.
To be Christian is to make a decisive commitment to Jesus as Saviour and Lord.
That commitment reshapes life.
Priorities begin to shift.
Values are re-ordered.
We start learning to trust what he says is right and wrong, rather than relying only on our own instincts or opinions.
This also helps clarify what Christianity is not.
It is not primarily a creed, or a code of behaviour, or a set of religious ceremonies.
Those things matter—but they sit on the edges, not at the centre.
Good Christian behaviour, Christian values, Christian thinking, even Christian theology – all of these are products of something deeper.
At the heart of Christianity is something wonderfully simple—and profoundly challenging: surrendering to the truth of who Jesus Christ is, just as he claimed himself to be.