Religion has been a stumbling block for Christians around the world. Many go to church and want to know what they are doing. Many do not know what it means to a relationship with God and this has catechized more people for Jesus. Yes! Because when we do not live the true gospel, not when we deny ourselves and not have a relationship with God, we are not winning souls to Jesus and yes, evangelizing them and thus trapping them. Because this is exactly what religions have done throughout history (and culturally we have repeated). These people deeply marked, killed innocent people persecuted in order to unify a culture or assert their own interests. The concept of religion, to me, is much more than a registered church with several members who visit often without knowing what they do. Religion is when we do things out of habit or because we have been taught well and is part of our culture. Jesus is what we need in our culture! Love, peace, transformation and above all salvation must be our way of life, must become a lifestyle and realize the most important Atit we do every day. That's what we bring to the people of this world. However, religion has prevented further advance and many believers had conquered the world for Christ because of its conventions, especially when he says that "we are not part of this world." Because of this, we have lost rich opportunities to show the world that an honest life under the direction of Jesus is true! Jesus is not a way for people to feel good and find peace within yourself, only. This is also very important, but Jesus came not to make people feel good, but to bring salvation to them. Salvation is far beyond the threat that you "go to hell if we do not accept him as savior." Salvation is for anyone who wants a friend, Lord and Father is to those who humbly acknowledge that, despite their talents and their stories of perfect or imperfect, they need Jesus. It is part of the divine plan that will hate us because of the truths about the nations prophesied. But to be hated because we have a relationship with God and we know not evangelize, it is our fault. If we do not know how to bring people to Jesus, we must learn from Him and His word. Jesus is real and if we preach it, so we live it too. The truth will always be true everywhere we go and if he is the truth, He will be witnessed by us in accordance with the truth that we live. People do not believe anything that is confusing and uncertain. If we want to Jesus, we must have our lives on the altar that he may be glorified in us and through us.
We are revolutionaries and we are at this moment in history and God chose us for this, let us do our part. Gospel is not catechism, is love.
With all my love, Chris.
