Every once in a while I will encounter someone who will ask me about my "religion", or I will overhear a conversation about someone who's Christian walk is referred to their being "religious". Here's the thing: True Christianity is 110% relationship, 0% religion. No one ever got into heaven by sitting in a church, not matter how often they are there, no more so than a person becomes a car by being inside a garage.
The connection that is established when a person gets saved (Confessing with their mouths and believing in their hearts that Jesus is Lord, and realizing that He got up on that cross, and then rose from the dead totally and unequivocally for them), is a Father-to-Child and Bridgegroom-to-Bride dual relationship. Religion is a series of rules and doctrines that weighs people down, saddling them with processes that often prevent the very thing that Jesus came for - to sweep away the sins that beset humanity and cause us to be bound for eternity in hell, rather than eternal communion with our Father/Bridegroom Creator.
Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. Luke 11:46
God created us in His image, loves us, sent His Son to die for us, and we are always on His mind.
That's how special each of us is to Him!
The connection that is established when a person gets saved (Confessing with their mouths and believing in their hearts that Jesus is Lord, and realizing that He got up on that cross, and then rose from the dead totally and unequivocally for them), is a Father-to-Child and Bridgegroom-to-Bride dual relationship. Religion is a series of rules and doctrines that weighs people down, saddling them with processes that often prevent the very thing that Jesus came for - to sweep away the sins that beset humanity and cause us to be bound for eternity in hell, rather than eternal communion with our Father/Bridegroom Creator.
Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. Luke 11:46
God created us in His image, loves us, sent His Son to die for us, and we are always on His mind.
That's how special each of us is to Him!
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