THE CHRISTIANITY OF CHRIST: The King, His Ways, and the Institution That Forgot Both

About the BookIn 1845, Frederick Douglass wrote that between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, he recognized the widest possible difference. Nearly two centuries later, that gap has never been honestly closed.The Christianity of Christ is a three-part examination of how the institutional church lost its way — and what it looks like to find it again.Part One documents seven expressions of the false prophet pattern: the church that blessed the founding contradiction, built theology in the service of the plantation, covered racial terror with silence, counseled patience while people suffered, traded its prophetic voice for political power, protected its leaders at the expense of the vulnerable, and carried a cross to the Capitol steps.Part Two presents the King himself — his job description, his basin and towel, his refusals, his specific and costly attention to the person the institution excluded. The standard the church abandoned, not in failure, but by choice.Part Three recovers the counter-record: ordinary people in every generation who held the Jesus standard at real cost — and extends to the reader the same commission they answered.Written by a Nigerian minister formed by the Word of Faith movement, shaped by ministry on two continents, and still paying the cost of moving away from both, this book is not an attack on the church. It is a call from inside it.The standard was not lost. It was abandoned. By choice. And what is abandoned by choice can be recovered by choice. Read more