Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 9:47pm.
First define religion: Religion is man "trying" to reach God. Christianity: Is God reaching down to man. Religion is a "self-initiated" effort to know God on one's personal terms. Christianity is Faith in a living God through the person of Jesus Christ, God the Son. The body of Christ is a living breathing organism that has Christ as the head; the church is not trained nor equipped in its SUNDAY SCHOOL...school...a training ground for the believer. The local church...the accountability place. Bible Studies outside the church are "trying" to fill in the gap the local church should be doing. They are good, but there is really no accountability there. We have a social gospel today, a watered-down "Christianity" and we are too much like the world. So with all this said, the church does not know what to believe because they do not know the WORD of GOD. There is ONE GOD and no one can come to HIM in prayer except through Jesus Christ...so if Jesus is excluded...these religions are praying to "gods" of their own making. As for the "other" books...they do not hold a candle to the living, breathing, written Word of God. The WORD is God breathed into the hearts and minds of 40 different writers...but just ONE AUTHOR. Our Author lives...the writers of the other books are dead...just like their "spiritual" truths. Wake up Church! Let's be about our Father's Business in equipping disciples...go and MAKE DISCIPLES...teach the doctrine and disciplines of the WORD.
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First define religion:
First define religion: Religion is man "trying" to reach God. Christianity: Is God reaching down to man. Religion is a "self-initiated" effort to know God on one's personal terms. Christianity is Faith in a living God through the person of Jesus Christ, God the Son. The body of Christ is a living breathing organism that has Christ as the head; the church is not trained nor equipped in its SUNDAY SCHOOL...school...a training ground for the believer. The local church...the accountability place. Bible Studies outside the church are "trying" to fill in the gap the local church should be doing. They are good, but there is really no accountability there. We have a social gospel today, a watered-down "Christianity" and we are too much like the world. So with all this said, the church does not know what to believe because they do not know the WORD of GOD. There is ONE GOD and no one can come to HIM in prayer except through Jesus Christ...so if Jesus is excluded...these religions are praying to "gods" of their own making. As for the "other" books...they do not hold a candle to the living, breathing, written Word of God. The WORD is God breathed into the hearts and minds of 40 different writers...but just ONE AUTHOR. Our Author lives...the writers of the other books are dead...just like their "spiritual" truths. Wake up Church! Let's be about our Father's Business in equipping disciples...go and MAKE DISCIPLES...teach the doctrine and disciplines of the WORD.