Now the only time I feel that life is passing me by is when I am not pursuing a daily
love relationship with Jesus.
I am doing my best here to try to convert you heathens into
a loving relationship with Jesus, but you are all like, «blah blah blah, atheism, blah blah blah, bible contradictions» Do you even know how many of you there are on this forum?!
That only gets God back to square one —
a loving relationship with Jesus (which S / He already had) minus us.
Not exact matches
Undoubtedly,
Jesus still
loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal
relationships with him.
My
relationship with Jesus has radically rewritten the way I see
love.
As I often say, as followers of
Jesus, we have no choice but to move toward
relationships with those who are marginalized, dehumanized and in need of
love.
It often seems as the «share» the details of this
relationship that
Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side when any conflict occurs
with others rather than the
Jesus who
loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
Being taught by the spirit, teaching one another how to draw more fully in healing our souls
with the atoning power of
Jesus Christ, lifting one another in
love and service: these define LDS worship and
relationships.
I want it to build a consistent picture of a deeper more genuine
relationship with Christ as they match how we
love them
with what
Jesus taught.
Oh and
Jesus does too and He
loves you very much and wants a
relationship with you.
Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God,
Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate
relationships with others and
loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following
Jesus and living life as His disciples.
Rey i assume your married but is your
relationship about the dos and donts its about showing your
love to your wife not rules if it is theres something wrong.In the same way
with Jesus its about the
relationship we want to please him in what we think what we do so that we give him the glory.brentnz
Perhaps because women are often honest about our relational needs, we frequently send this false message to women, implying — or blatantly claiming — once they wholeheartedly give themselves to a
relationship with Jesus, they will no longer need the friendship,
love, or companionship of other people.
The marriage
relationship isn't exempt from the words of
Jesus — and the teachings of the Church — about how we are to interact
with one another and
love one another.
Daily I find myself slipping into those same old habits of judging people based on their theological positions and spending more time reading and writing about
Jesus than actually building
relationship with Him and
loving «the least of these.»
As parents, we need to work to ensure our children have a
relationship with Jesus, not just a desire to be part of a
loving community doing good.
Christianity is a
love for our God and a
relationship with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Faced
with some direct questions about whether he really believed
Jesus, Paul and the prophets would have been fine about
loving gay
relationships, Bell responded, «That's a great question.
Jesus's message, that God wants to be in
relationship with sinners and directs his
love towards them, has no parallel in its time.
We try to
love people, get to know them, build
relationships with them and even help them when possible because we believe that is the way
Jesus lived.
Not only are we looking for someone
with a genuine
love and
relationship with Jesus (and rightfully so), we're looking for a mate who hasn't struggled
with any significant sin, has spent life on the mission field, only reads the Bible and eats rainbows for breakfast.
But yes it's not much good claiming an identity
with Jesus Christ if our
relationship with Him isn't a living one putting on Christ and allowing our
love to radiate to our fellow man... gay or otherwise.
Thank you for being part of this growing movement of God in the world, and for joining me on this journey out of religion and into a closer
relationship with Jesus in which we learn to
love others as we have been
loved.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of
love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming
love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his
relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son,
Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion
with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ
Jesus» (Rom.
All the ugliness seen in the OT does not fit
with the
Jesus I see of the Gospels, so that I hold at arms length until I have been in
relationship with others long enough for my inner self to show me how it does fit
with the all
loving nature of
Jesus Christ.
For the first several years of her
relationship with Jesus, worship music was so important to her — she
loved to sing, to hear other people singing, to gather
with other Christians at church services or worship concerts.
I can't prove anything to anyone, but I can stand here and tell you how thankful I am for my
relationship with Jesus because I am a different and better person because of my experience of His
love for me.
Mike i like what you wrote about the
relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers
love that he has always
loved us from the beginning when he created us it covers the reason why
Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz
You will, however, deepen your knowledge of Scripture, grow in your
relationship with Jesus, and learn how to
love and serve others in a more meaningful way, but you will not be able to put initials before or after your name.
Jesus knew that His
relationship with the Father was not about these sorts of lists, which is why people
loved to hang out
with Him.
As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis,
loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ, I would
love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the people that have left and the problems people have
with the Church.
Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons:
loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your
relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro
But now,
with the focus on
relationships, and
love, and following
Jesus into the world, the church and theology will become more
relationship - focused, which is why terms like redemption and reconciliation will become more prominent.
Our host, a devoted father,
loved his teenaged daughter but deeply regretted that she did not have a
relationship with Jesus.
Mr Lynn denies that he called a homosexual lady «perverse» and «sinful» as he told shoppers that
love can only be truly found through a right
relationship with Jesus.
I believe our unconditional
love relationship with God and our life style response to that
love through
Jesus The Christ is what is important and our true reality.
Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who
loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment,
love...) in short, Yes,
Jesus is what matters, but to know
Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a
relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is,
Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west&ra
Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted
with its religious practices that they have forgotten about
jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west&ra
jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.
Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west&ra
Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him,
love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life
with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal
relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
I said, «Everyone
loves Jesus, he was obviously one of the most amazing human beings that walked the face of the planet... But it's clear the Bible is against homosexuality, so I'm disqualified from a
relationship with God.»
He was a man who has clearly realized that the
love of Jesus Christ can not be matched even by the love of those we share deep and lasting relationships with, because the person of Christ is L
love of
Jesus Christ can not be matched even by the
love of those we share deep and lasting relationships with, because the person of Christ is L
love of those we share deep and lasting
relationships with, because the person of Christ is
LoveLove.
As followers of
Jesus we think we have a huge opportunity to build
loving relationships with other people.
Contrast was between the offer of Satan which was worldly possessions and
Jesus reply which was a
loving relationship with God.
I guess I don't feel like I can go around and speak about
Jesus and what
relationship with God is all about because the more I see people who seem to «get it wrong» and who have good hearts but bad theology, good intentions and bad expressions of
love... the more I become afraid that I will just become part of the problem and not the solution.
Whether it's in our closest
relationships or our brief encounters
with strangers, we always have that choice — to bring life or to bring death, to bring an agenda or to bring
love, to bring a product or to bring
Jesus.
Long story short, it's important to build a
relationship with people before telling them about
Jesus...... because one can not see
LOVE if they are not feeling
loved or have ever felt
loved.
God
loves you, and desires to have a
relationship with you through
Jesus Christ His Son.
However, through a personal
relationship with Jesus we come to discover that we gradually need to be transformed by grace, body and soul, to enter into the fullness of
love.
It's not a way we gain God's favor or
love — we already have that through what
Jesus has done for us — but it's a way we keep a strong
relationship with Him.
~ only after leaving a Christian Cult (yes, they exist) was I able to come to true
relationship with the Lord
Jesus Christ... and it took almost twenty years of being out before I could even begin to grasp that I was
loved.
For me, the
relationship that
Jesus exhibits
with His Father and in reliance upon the Holy Spirit speaks of an eternal
love and fellowship that they shared, and which
Jesus invites us to share as well.