How important is a personal relationship with Jesus? Some of my evangelical friends define Christianity as a personal relationship with Jesus. Everything else is adiaphora, except maybe the worship ...

“Jesus is my best friend.” “God walks with me and talks with me and tells me I am his own.” Years later, I was stunned to realize that this phrase “personal relationship,” which saturated my religious ...

The phrase “a personal relationship with Jesus,” is not found in the Bible ... They labor under the illusion that the God they make in the image of the self becomes more real as he more ...

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 ...

Additionally, Francis writes: "The New Testament does not only tell us of the earthly Jesus and his tangible and loving relationship ... on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his ...