In recent years, I hear people choose to describe their inner life more in terms of being spiritual than religious. Religion seems to have gotten a bad rap and for many good reasons. Religion tends to focus on man’s efforts to reach God, whereas the message of Jesus is more about God’s efforts to reach Man. God gives us the gift of His Spirit to accomplish in us what human efforts fail to do.
“For what the law was powerless to do...God did by sending his own Son...in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Rom.8 Conversations Within” ts 8/6/2021
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