Christianity is ranked as the largest religion in the world today with approximately 2 billion adherents. Christianity is appropriately defined as a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian bible. Christianity is at least three things: (1) A set of beliefs (2) A way of life (3) A community of people.

Various Christian groups place different impetus on these three aspects, only to include all three in different variations in their ideology. These three aspects are based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who is also known as the Christ. (“Christ” was originally a title. It is the Greek form of the Hebrew “Messiah”, meaning “anointed”.)

Christianity believes in one God, who has created this universe. It is essentially known as “ethical monotheism”. This term implies that there in the universality of one God, and there are specific guidelines and rules to follow the path of God.

Christianity has evolved in stages and had been severed to adjust to the changing trends. It is true ‘that nothing is constant except change’ – similarly the essence of Christianity has also changed. “We can no longer be religious in the same way as our ancestors. The world has been irrevocably transformed and so have our patterns of thought and experience” (Armstrong), and had tried to come to terms with the world of the 21st Century. However, mainstream Christianity is overloaded with rigid directions and guidance, and they are not very categorical to sway to the needs of the time. Rigidity in the face of change has resulted in the loss of what is central and essential in Christianity.  According to my observations, Christian church when confronted with the implications and fact of 21st Century, were reprimanded with loss of nerve and did not how to react. Uncertainty and religious stigmatism had forced them to block Christianity into a theological fortress, and unsuccessfully tried to defend a 19th Century world view.  Thus, Christianity had failed to interpret the expression of the modern theology. After shutting their doors and windows and protecting themselves from the provocation of the new generation- Christianity lost its luster and impetus.  The command and authority that is central to any religion; the enigma and charisma to speak the words of God – all seem to evaporate in the rigidity and static vibes of the religion. Christianity is the birth of our beliefs and sentiments so it can never forsake our existence- but the religious instruments and machinery controlling it, have become farce and a subject of mere relinquishment.

Then let us interpret modern Christianity? As Armstrong says, “We can no longer be religious in the same way as our ancestors. The world has been irrevocably transformed and so have our patterns of thought and experience” (Armstrong). According to Hanegraaff, the faith teachers and the followers who are distracted, discouraged and disillusioned, “My heart aches for the parent who put his dead baby on ice and, in the midst of tears and desperation, drove fifty miles to a counterfeit revival center because he trusted the testimonies of faith preachers who were touting resurrections from the dead. I equally grieve the millions who have left faith churches in the midst of failed faith formulas. Some conclude that God must not love them; others question the integrity of the whole Christian enterprise.” So 21^st century Christianity presents a rather pathetic picture as hypothetical and false teachers and preachers have been accepted and applauded within the Christian community—without any question or ordinance.