Here’s a key problem with religion. Our responsibility as believers has never been to beat or coerce other people into the submission of what we believe to be truth - even IF we happen to be right about a given subject. As followers of Christ, our job is to lift up Jesus in everything that we do – and if we can’t do so in love and in grace, with patience and with mercy, then we aren’t exalting Him at all.

People aren’t attracted to Jesus because of religion, it’s about relationship. Your relationship with them; your relationship with Him. And when He is lifted up properly, others will come and see what intimacy with Him can truly be.

Religion is satisfied with behavioral modification, but the Lord is after Spirit transformation – which by the way, HE initiates and works within us.