spiritual reality of the presence and function of deity within
humanity. When Jesus thus dwells and reigns spiritually in
those who receive Him by faith, the kingdom that Jesus so
often referred to becomes operative. The resurrection-life
of Jesus becomes the spiritual empowering of the
Christian’s life and participation in the ecclesia of the
Church. Such a spiritual, gospel reality of “Christianity”
can only be defined as the dynamic life and activity of the
living Lord Jesus Christ. Christianity is Christ!
C.S. Lewis explained that
“in Christ a new kind of man appeared: and the new kind of life
which began in Him is to be ut into us.” 1Earlier John W. Nevin had written,
“A new order of revelation entirely bursts upon the world, in the
person of Jesus Christ. He is the absolute truth itself, personally
present among men, and incorporating itself with their life. He is
the substance, where all previous prophecy, had been only as
sound or shadow.” 2God’s self-revelation of Himself in His Son, Jesus
Christ, involves an integral and indivisible oneness. The
singular unity of the Godhead Self-communicates Himself
to man in the homoousion union of Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. In this divine triunity there can be no bifurcation or
trifurcation of independent function. God acts as unified