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What is Your Religion?
I received an e-mail at my County job last week requesting that everyone give notification of their religion for statistical purposes. The options to check were few and it made me wonder what most of the people around me considered to be their religion.
I looked up the word Religion in the dictionary and noted that it is basically defined as a person’s system of beliefs and practices. I hear often from the Officers that I work with that they are ___________ (fill in the blank with any traditional religion) but that they are not “practicing”. “I am a Baptist but not a practicing Baptist”.
Is it possible to really have a system of beliefs in your life that you don’t practice as well? How much can you really believe in something if you don’t believe in it enough to do it?
James tells us that there is a religion that God accepts and backs fully. –One that loves others and one where it’s members work on being Holy, because He is Holy.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27?
How amazing would it be if everyone who considered themselves to be religious belonged to that religion?
So, now I ask you: What is your religion?
Love this! Thanks for sharing with us. So grateful that you pour into our children every week!
faith in action. yes. thanks, Todd. missin’ you on the retreat, dude.
alan
Hi Todd,
That must have been directed at me I guess. That’s why I’m glad I had the chance to be part of the mission team that went to Kenya. I’m from a Southern Baptist background,but we got out of traditional Baptist Church because of to much politics. Until Loary and I came to CCC we just went from church to church trying to find us a home and have that sense of belongging and where the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached. Dade City First Baptist Church(Dade City Florida) was the last church I felt at home til we became part of CCC. I like going outside the walls and helping others and CCC gives us that challenge and opportunity.