It's About Relationships, Not Rituals

Good Morning!! Unfortunately, Christians are often seen through caricatures. A caricature is an image rooted in reality but distorted in a way that drastically overemphasizes some features of that reality,...most of those images have to do with the practice of religion. Christians are often seen as close-minded, hypocritical, judgmental, or extreme in their talk, and thinking.

"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd..—John 10:14-16 (NIV)
Although Christianity is often thought of as a religion, that's not what real Christianity is all about. It's about relationship,...a personal relationship with a loving Father (God the Father),...a relationship with someone who was willing to give his life for us, Jesus (God the Son),...a relationship with the Holy Spirit (God the Holy Spirit), who guides and comforts and helps us in our day-to-day living.

Through an unimaginably great sacrifice, Jesus is offering us a relationship with God,...all we have to do is say yes.

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Sweet and Holy Spirit of God, Help us today, as we choose to follow Jesus. And we thank God for allowing us to have a personal relationship with Him. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

"To show His love, Jesus died for us,...to show our love, we live for Him ."