Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her

Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her

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We have a responsibility more than that, no more than that a duty as a church. When I say Church that does not allow for a cop out that allows it to be all of us so if I'm not comfortable we are in it together so some one ells can pick up the slack. Every single one of has a personal responsibility to reach out and not let those individuals that are lost just slip through the cracks.

This hits me right in between the eyes and maybe any one ells who reads this.

Casting Crowns - American Dream

Casting Crowns - American Dream

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How many of us in this country get caught up in this in some way shape or form. It's what makes America one of the greatest places in the world to live because of the freedom but if we miss place our priorities we run the risk of falling into the trap this video speaks to.

It's not a religion but a relationship

Christianity is not a religion in the way most of us define religion. There is a set of principles to live by. A place to gather and worship. And a level of organization that would seem to make it no different than any other religion in the world just another sistems of beliefs that are blindly followed by the masses that proffess to be Christains.

The reality is that at the core of christianity is not a building or a coad of conduct or even the bible itself, it is a relationship with the one true God that lasts on into eternity and at it's very best that relationship defines all that one who claims to be a Christain is. All the rest is an outward exspretion of that relationship and any thing short of that is simply not Christainity.

The most unsetleing thing about this reality is that most of those who gather on Sunday or atleast from my exspierence miss the true reason that the church they worship in even exists in the first place or even the point of the bible itself. The bible itself is not the core but the guild and all that the Lord put into our hands as suficent as to know Him. The bible is not to be worshiped but studied so that the relationship can grow in depth through understanding.

Christianity is not at all a religion but a relationship any other description misses the point to the detriment of both the one holding the belife and any it is shared with.

The what freedoms lost? It's what libertisy lavished!

Too many people some how believe that you some how give up your freedom to follow Christ. The very thought is insane. So you give up some thing like drunken sex but you gain freedom from those demons that have been holding you back. Let me be totally transparent I was heavy into porn before I got saved and just dropped it like the bad habit that it was and never looked back until the last few years pride slipped in and I fell and fell hard and for so long I struggled in my own strength to climb that slippery slope swearing every time that it was the last and feeling like every time I was letting God down. Just recently I came to understand I wasn't letting God down by falling back into sin I was missing the power of His grace and I found that freedom all over again. You don't loose freedom you gain liberty. All that is impossible with man is possible with God and there is nothing beyond where He can take you and nothing beyond the strength that is never your own. So drugs and drunken sex is out the door but being always and for ever more unconditionally loved with a peace that surpasses all understanding is more than a trade off. You don't give up your freedom you gain liberty. freedom to do what for liberty from everything.