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 “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 ...

“Jesus is my best friend ... I have spent many years now feeling spiritually deficient because I don’t have a personal relationship with God. I’ve certainly hungered for the kind of intimacy I sang ...

It is often said by the faithful that Christianity is not a religion but a personal love relationship with Jesus Christ. Despite Christians trying to monopolise God for themselves, men of all ages and ...

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 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 ...

but I am hopeful that through the disappointment of our institutions of religiosity we might return to having a relationship with God through the sacrificial gift of Jesus. Maybe religion is the ...