Sometimes Christianity is difficult to explain and the Christain
motivations for life are totally alien to the world around us. I was
recently chatting to an atheist who was interested in finding out
about Chritianity. We got talking about the trinity and I explained
that the Holy Spirit was a person and was equal to and was God, but
at the same time He lived within me. Arghh he said, does that mean on
a x-ray the doctors would find two people living inside you!!.was his
reply.
No, the Christian life I explained is not about obeying commands and
laws, it's about who we are and the Spirit lives inside to motivate
us to follow God. Without him I explained it would be impossible to
be Christian. Look at this;


D. M. Lloyd-Jones reminds us, "The Christian gospel places all its
primary emphasis upon being, rather than doing. The gospel puts a
greater weight upon our attitude than upon our actions. . . it's main
stress is on what you and I essentially are rather than on what we
do." He continues:
A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be
Christians before we can act as Christians. . . Being is more
important than doing, attitude is more significant than action.
Primarily it is our essential character that matters. . . . we are
Christians and our actions are the outcome of that.
. . . We are not meant to control our Christianity; our Christianity
is rather meant to control us. . . I am dominated by the truth
because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy
spirit within. . . "I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me." He is
in control, not I; so that I must not think of myself as a natural
man who is controlling his attitude and trying to be Christian in
various ways. no; His Spirit controls me at the very center of my
life, controls the very spring of my being, the source of my every
activity. The Christian faith is not something on the surface of a
man's life, it is not merely a kind of coating or veneer. no, it is
something that has been happening in the very centre of his
personality. That is why the New Testament talks about rebirth and
being born again, about a new creation and about receiving a new
nature. It is something that happens to a man in the very centre of
his being; it controls all his thoughts, all his outlook, all his
imagination, and, as a result, all his actions as well. All our
activities, therefore,are the result of this new nature, this new
disposition which we have received from God through the Holy Spirit.
. . . As we live our ordinary lives we are declaring all the time
exactly what we are. . . By the way we react we manifest our spirit;
and it is the spirit that proclaims the man in terms of
Christianity. . . The whole of our life is an expression and a
proclamation of what we really are (Studies on the Sermon on the
Mount, vol. I, pp. 96-97).