This past week I helped one of my son’s do a research project on Hinduism. We were looking at several different sources for information, and one of them we came across said something like this: unlike Christianity, Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. Needless to say, that became another teaching moment for me to explain to my son that Christianity is not, in fact, a religion, but a way of life.

So when I came across the following entry at Justin Taylor’s blog earlier today, I had to tag it since it’s saying the same thing I was sharing with my son about our faith in Christ:

“In a sermon Dick Lucas once preached, he recounted an imaginary conversation between an early Christian and her neighbor in Rome.
“Ah,” the neighbor says. “I hear you are religious! Great! Religion is a good thing. Where is your temple or holy place?”
“We don’t have a temple,” replies the Christian. “Jesus is our temple.”
“No temple? But where do your priests work and do their ritual?”
“We don’t have priests to mediate the presence of God,” replies the Christian. “Jesus is our priest.”
“No priests? But where do you offer your sacrifices to acquire the favor of your God?”
“We don’t need a sacrifice,” replies the Christian. “Jesus is our sacrifice.”
“What kind of religion is this?” sputters the pagan neighbor.
And the answer is, it’s no kind of religion at all.”

–Told by Tim Keller, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the life of Jesus, p. 48.