What is Christianity?
Christianity is not a religion but a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
How can you enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
Through spiritual rebirth or regeneration by faith alone in Christ alone. (John 3:3)
Once you are in, how can you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
Through knowledge of His Word. (Romans 10:17)
Since Jesus Christ Himself is the Word (John 1:1), Christianity, therefore, is a personal relationship with the Word of God.
In other words, Christianity is assimilated and precise knowledge of the Word of God in the soul.
Christianity begins with permanent entry into the family of God through spiritual regeneration and continues with spiritual growth through inculcation of the Word of God and Bible Doctrine.
True Christians are followers of “The Way”
“The Way” is mentioned several times in the book of Acts (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22) in connection with early followers of Christ. It was to take prisoner men and women who “belonged to the Way” (Acts 9:2; 22:4) that Saul of Tarsus went to Damascus. After Saul was converted, he became a missionary and went by the name of Paul. In Ephesus, Paul met some in the synagogue who “became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way” (Acts 19:9, NKJV, paraphrase). Paul left the synagogue and continued to preach the gospel where it would be heard rather than remain with those who denigrated the Way.
During his trial before Felix, Paul said, “I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way” (Acts 24:14, NKJV, paraphrase). We are also told that Felix knew about the Way (verse 22).
Early followers of Christ referred to themselves as followers of the Way because of Jesus’ statement in John 14:6 that He is “the way and the truth and the life.” Luke says that Aquila and Priscilla explained to Apollos “the way of God” more accurately (Acts 18:26). Peter refers to Christianity as “the way of truth” (2 Peter 2:2). The writer of Hebrews says that Jesus’ broken body is the “new and living way” for us to enter the Most Holy Place (Hebrews 10:19–20).