Growing up in Christian circles, I often heard the phrase, “it’s not a religion, it’s a relationship.”
Empty religion was problematic. At our church, we wanted to embody a vibrant, meaningful faith that impacted Monday through Saturday. For us, the spiritual journey involved all of life. It wasn’t merely a Sunday experience.
The emphasis on relationship was perhaps helpful in some ways. As a Christian, I am in relationship to God through Jesus and the Spirit, and thereby also bonded to fellow human beings who are also children of God [even if sometimes we don’t yet know it!].
If someone were to refer to me then as a religious person, something inside me would react. I had an allergy to being an adherent to a religious tradition or a religious person.
These days I claim the title, whatever that comes with, and I don’t mind.
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