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Religion vs Relationship Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston
Religion teaches us how we should act but it may leave us feeling empty. Religion will tell you that you’re broken but will tell you nothing about how to fix it. Religion will point fingers but not give you a hand. There is a difference between memorizing scripture and seeing scripture working in our life. Don’t mistake religion for a relationship with Christ. A person may wear a mask of religion but still not know Jesus.
John 8: 1 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” 6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. go and sin no more.”
Jesus does not condemn the sinner because the sinner is what He came to earth for. When you experience a relationship with Christ it will change your life. You may have been in a church for many years but still not have encountered Jesus. When you encounter Jesus you will never be the same.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away; behold, new has come. “
Jesus doesn’t need perfect situations to do something amazing. To know Jesus is to be transformed.
Watch the video of this podcast @ http://www.neverjustexist.org/religion-vs-relationship-with-jesus/
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Religion vs Relationship Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston
Religion teaches us how we should act but it may leave us feeling empty. Religion will tell you that you’re broken but will tell you nothing about how to fix it. Religion will point fingers but not give you a hand. There is a difference between memorizing scripture and seeing scripture working in our life. Don’t mistake religion for a relationship with Christ. A person may wear a mask of religion but still not know Jesus.
John 8: 1 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” 6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. go and sin no more.”
Jesus does not condemn the sinner because the sinner is what He came to earth for. When you experience a relationship with Christ it will change your life. You may have been in a church for many years but still not have encountered Jesus. When you encounter Jesus you will never be the same.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away; behold, new has come. “
Jesus doesn’t need perfect situations to do something amazing. To know Jesus is to be transformed.
Watch the video of this podcast @ http://www.neverjustexist.org/religion-vs-relationship-with-jesus/