Being a Christian is really simple. Jesus said it many times. He boiled it down to tow words and two commandments. FOLLOW ME and Love God and your neighbor: love the subjecive and then love the objective. And here we are following Paul, Pope’s, Wesleys, or a denomination. How in the hell did we get here? Or is that how?
My perspective has seen that Christians have fallen into one of two camps. Neither do I feel comfortable with, nor do any of those camps feel at ease with me.
I came out of the judicial camp!
My denomination was the only right one! We were the only one who baptized people rightly. We were the closest to God. We didn’t speak in tongues or believe in any “second belessings”. The rapture was the linch pin of our faith. And in the end God would judge and those that had done all the right things would go to HEAVEN! Those who didn’t would burn eternally in hell.
It no longer makes any sense and it no longer has any known hold on me. I say “known”. 
The other camp would be akin to the picture I have of the Democratic party in America. Jesus was a “social reformer“. He wanted ALL to be EQUAL and social justice was what He was all about. As with the judicial camp, there’s some truth in both.
However!
I believe that I am following Jesus more fully now and that would give me no standing in the two camps above. I’m moving towards a more mystical pathway. I am looking for the divine secrets in the life that Jesus lived and what it was that He has to say- outside of what the Protestant canon has to say.
I’m following as passionately as I can Jesus!
I would venture to say “Hell” is the path we chose to get here, and I KNOWINGLY say…the mystical path to the experience of the divinity (Yaweh) within each of us is the most FREEING place I have ever been in my almost 60 years on this earth. I feel like I have at last found “heaven” within His Kingdom, His Divinity within my humanity in this earth experiece He created me/us for so He could experience ALL of Himself, His magnificence.” I feel a kinship with each soul that occupies my space of each NOW moment of my life. I find myself BEING pray for each one, that their spirit will awaken into consciousness of WHO they are, and WHO’s they are.
Thank God we were not left unknowing. And thank God that there’s so much more to BE.
Ah yes, the more to BE…joy, peace, love, mercy, goodness to name a few. How fulfilling to my soul…to just BE for others, ecperiencing I AM, for each I am.
Our problem is not that we have a ripe Christianity in America, but that we are so consumed with making others impressed with our Christianity that we set up standards that have the appearance of godliness but in reality they do nothing unto the sin nature as the apostle Paul mentioned in the Holy Bible, our first and only priority is Jesus Christ and his creation of humans.
The kind of “impression” Jesus left behind was “foot washing” and we’ve translated that into a daily pedicure for ourselves.