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The heart of the matter For many, the question ‘What is a Christian?’ is a confusing one. Most people know something about Jesus Christ and the Bible—perhaps from school or church—and yet, for whatever reason, have not been able to see the sense, or the relevance of it all. Others have picked up second-hand doubts about whether Christianity is true. Is the Bible reliable? How can God love us when there is so much suffering around? Surely science has disproved it all? There are good and convincing answers to all these questions, but none of them makes sense unless we really understand the Christian answer to the bigger questions which trouble us all: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Is there a God out there who cares for me?—and how can I get in touch with him? The Christian claim is that all these questions were answered decisively when Jesus Christ came into the world. Jesus taught that everything matters, because the world and everything in it, including all the people in the world, belongs to God. What we do in God’s world, and with it, is 1
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