Christ vs Religion

Our small fellowship group on Tuesday consisted of sharing our personal life stories. I think we all agreed that we were like turtles on top of a fence —we didn't get there by ourselves :-)

On Wednesday night, we concluded the study of Deuteronomy. Chapter 27 contains the words "Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool upon them." How easily an altar can be 'altered' and turned into an idol. The message then was the same as in the New Testament -don't worship the worship.

Jesus never condemned a sinner but always criticized the religious hypocrisy of the time. Has our relationship with God turned into religion? Do we go to church to be made to 'feel religious'?

Unless we change and become like little children, we will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And those who want to turn our joy into intellectual doctrine...
it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

When Jesus was asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" He called a little child and had him stand among them.

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