Christianity Made Simple: A Regular Parent’s Guide to Making Sense of Christianity, Answering the Hard Questions, and Building Lasting Values in the Modern World

Do you want to give your children an enduring moral compass, but find that the hate-prone and distorted version of Christianity you are hearing in church or the media does not reflect your inborn sense of what Christ intended? Do you want to teach them more than a "because I said so" version of Christianity, and to be able to explain religion in a practical way that actually hangs together and makes sense? Starting with three basic, simple principles, this book explains the Christian religion in a "non-churchy" way that makes sense of sin, virtue, prayer, and the other basic concepts, and enables parents to answer the hard questions like "why does God allow evil to exist?" It then applies those concepts to real-world problems, explaining how Christianity, correctly understood, can help to navigate safely through life.This book is aimed at three main groups. First and foremost are parents who may or may not be particularly churchgoing, but who want to provide their children with a useful moral compass to guide them through life. This book arose from my own efforts as a parent to explain Christianity in a sensible and useful manner to my children. I found that church, Sunday school, and the religious books on the market provided surprisingly little help in this effort. This book seeks to fill that gap.The second group is active, churchgoing Christians who find that they have questions that no one has been able to answer to their satisfaction. For you, this book offers a comprehensive framework for understanding Christianity, one that makes it easier to fill in the holes and to sort out conflicting information or things that don’t seem to make sense. If understanding Christianity seems to be unnecessarily difficult, and if your questions have been met with responses that are vague, mysterious, or unhelpful, this simple guide may provide what you have been missing.Finally, this book is aimed at those who want the spiritual comfort and purpose of religion, who feel a void in their lives without it, but who have never been able to buy in to the versions of Christianity that were presented to them. For you, I offer a correction of the errors that you may have been exposed to. Because most people never get a very firm grasp of what Christianity is really about, many of us grow up being exposed only to versions that don’t make sense or that propose a vision of God that is unattractive, one that we can feel must be wrong. A proper understanding of Christianity will remove those errors and allow you to find the attractive, sensible, useful faith that can give you what you have been seeking.