It was ubiquitous in sermons and in the favorite spiritual expressions of my fellow churchgoers: “Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.” “Jesus ... of personal relationship does more harm ...

My problem is that I don’t know what a personal relationship with Jesus is. Apparently it has a substantial, perhaps essential, emotional content, but that’s not much to go on. I have a personal ...

The true Church of Christ should be able to understand, live, and clearly articulate what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus and Pope Benedict is a sure and wise guide to this ...

He then continued to teach me that all my relationships would be strengthened because of the personal relationship I have with Jesus Christ. I have never forgotten that lesson. I have thought ...

Evangelicals generally insist that “the meaning and purpose of life is to have a personal relationship with Jesus.” That’s how a Methodist pastor I was listening to a few months ago put it.

The “personal relationship with Jesus” aspect of the great Catholic mystics is more profound than any Protestant reflections on this that I have ever read (as I discovered in compiling my book ...

Twelve Reasons From The Teachings Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The ... you and deepen your personal relationship and friendship with him. "I have come that you may ...

Pope Francis says nothing new in “The Joy of the Gospel” when he stresses the importance of a personal relationship ... and we have recourse to it thanks to Jesus, the Son of God, who died ...

The New Testament offers virtually no physical description of him, so they would have based the portraits ... who were similarly depicted. Jesus, too, had a relationship with water.