A relationship with Jesus is better than a religion with Jesus, but still, I don’t think Jesus was talking about us just having a relationship with him.
For instance, this one time, Jesus said, “Abide in me. and I in you.” … To abide in means to live within. Jesus says he wants me to live inside of him, and that he will live inside of me. That doesn’t sound like a relationship to me.” (33)
The author goes on to create this fascinating, and occasionally intentionally goofy comparison. He says that abiding is much more like a fetus in its mothers womb. He says that if we could interview the fetus, it might concede that it has a relationship with its mother, but that the connection is much deeper than mere relationship.
The above quote is from the book listed in the title of this posting. It’s a book we’re going to be reading together as a church.
What do you think? Should we long for MORE than a relationship with Jesus?
Selection #2 From ‘I became a Christian and all I got was this lousy t-shirt’ teaser #2
March 9, 2008 at 8:09 pm (small groups)
Tags: abide, church campaign, relationship with Jesus, Vince Antonucci
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