trying to find His way
This is my story, I was born and raised in and converted to religion. Jesus was a part of that religion, but was buried beneath it. I find myself still digging out from religious thinking and behaving. It is not easy to break free from, but when I experience the moments of relationship with Jesus,…
“And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27) “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32) “Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the…
“Judge Softly” ~ by Mary T. Lathrap, 1895 “Pray, don’t find fault with the man that limps, Or stumbles along the road. Unless you have worn the moccasins he wears, Or stumbled beneath the same load.
“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, or by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” (Madeleine L’Engle) Do you agree or disagree…
“Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but…
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that. all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole…
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World