What, if any, has been your experience of Christianity?

• Boring?
• Untrue?
• Irrelevant?

At the heart of the Christian faith is the person of Jesus Christ.

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.” (John 6:35)

The first-order questions of life:

• Is there more to life than this?
• What am I doing on earth?
• What is the point of life?
• What is the purpose of my life?
• Where am I heading?

C. S. Lewis: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Jesus is the lens through which we see God. He is the way to God.

Jesus is also the lens by which we see the world in a totally different dimension and clarity.

C. S. Lewis: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

• Truth—understood intellectually (head knowledge)
• Truth—experienced as a relationship (heart knowledge)

“I have come that [you] may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10)

Jesus came to deal with:

• The things that spoil our lives
• Our guilt

God loves you and He came, in the person of His Son, Jesus, to set you free to enjoy life to the full.

Jesus answered,

“I am the way,

the truth

and the life.”

John 14:6

1. How did you end up at Alpha tonight?
2. Tell us something interesting about yourself.
3. If it turned out that God did exist after all and you could ask one question—what would it be?

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