Shaun+Martin

10 Reasons why

1. We need Christianity because it shows us how to be loving, righteous people. Matthew 5:43-45 says, **43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[[|h]] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[[|i]] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.** 2. Christianity brings people together in fellowship and worship. Psalm 95:6 says, ** 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; ** 3.Without Christianity, we would not know who made us in His own image. Genesis 1:26 says, **26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [[|b]] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."**

4. We get to be in a family with God. 1 John 3:1 says, **1How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.**   5.We can have trust in a God who is not like this world. Romans 12:2 says,  **2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. **  <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 174); background-color: rgb(0, 251, 255);">6. Christianity is a way to have fun in righteous ways. Psalm 97:11 says, **<span style="color: rgb(1, 157, 249);">11 Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. ** <span style="color: rgb(178, 3, 252); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 7. Christianity is a way to help other people in need. Matthew 25:34-36 says, <span style="color: rgb(255, 128, 15);">**34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'**

<span style="color: rgb(215, 0, 255);">8. Christianity is a way to help people see that there is a better life with Jesus in it. Romans 8:1 says, <span style="color: rgb(250, 255, 0); background-color: rgb(30, 0, 255);">**1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,[[|a]] 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,[[|b]] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.[[|c]] And so he condemned sin in sinful man,[[|d]] 4in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.**

<span style="color: rgb(135, 20, 255);">9. Christianity fills the empty void God put in us to lead us to Him. 2 Corinthians 5:16 says, 1**<span style="color: rgb(6, 249, 26); background-color: rgb(154, 0, 250);">6 ****<span style="color: rgb(6, 249, 26); background-color: rgb(154, 0, 250);">So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. **

<span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(250, 5, 5);">10. Christianity is a way to show God's love to people. Mark 2:15 says, <span style="color: rgb(36, 255, 206); background-color: rgb(255, 20, 89);">**15While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.**