Christian theologian C.S. Lewis once said that Christianity is a religion that you

could not have guessed. It is not the sort of thing that anyone would make up. That the Almighty would humble Himself and become a human being in order to suffer and die on a cross to bring new life to His own creation, well, who would have thought it? How odd of God. Yet, it is here that Christians are distinct from other religions of the world.

So, I want to begin this series of sermons on world religions by asking myself a personal question. Why am I a Christian? I invite you to entertain that question too.

I. I AM A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE I WAS BORN INTO A CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

In Psalm 139, the psalmist says, “God created our innermost being. He knitted us together in our mother's womb."

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