My Personal Relationship With The Lord Jesus Christ

I show true Christian love to everyone I see, whether it be holding a door for someone or comforting them when they are down. I encourage my friends to contribute in service. In fact, I inspired one of my friends to come on the mission trip with my youth group this year. Going to a Catholic school has motivated me to reach out to my community and donate money in family to different organizations.

My belief in god has no firm beginning. It was just something I accepted like two plus two equals four or that chocolate ice cream tastes really good. I never really knew that you did not have to believe in god as everybody I knew for most of my life did. That was until I encountered, my cousin, Ryan’s beliefs or lack thereof. He thought

A man of integrity has nothing to hide, nothing to fear. You are always a stand-up man, and you will always be an individual who others can depend and count on. But most of all, a man of integrity is always true to his word. When you make promises, keep them. Don't be a liar. A man of integrity is not a liar; he keeps his word. The Bible says in Psalm 15, “When you’re living with integrity, you'll tell the truth even when you're older. Even when you know it may very well expose you, you still tell the truth instead of trying to find a way to get around it. Speak the truth in love, that we may grow up in all things.”

Being an Atheist, I’ve had hundreds of arguments with Christians about Jesus and religion in general. No matter what evidence I provided, the Christian always seemed to bypass it with the Personal relationship cop out. They would tell me they don’t practice religion, and that they have a personal relationship with Jesus. They would insist that I take five minutes of my time at night and call on Jesus while I’m all alone. Christians believed that Jesus would answer me, and my pathetic life will never be the same. It dawned on me that they were merely regurgitating what was taught to them by others. That the Christian didn’t really have a personal relationship with Jesus, but a personal relationship with themselves. Being frustrated with the fact that Christians can actually get away with not providing substantial evidence, I decided to research the origin of the personal relationship copout. Who created the concept of a personal relationship? Is the personal relationship copout in the bible? How old is the concept of a personal relationship? These are the questions that turned on the light bulb in my head. I just had to research and find out the answers, so here it is.

“Your actions and acts of kindness of integrity from the Holy Spirit of God, are integrated into your heart, mind, body and soul, so that everyone is fully aware of your intentions, identifying your input and involvement in the Kingdom of God.” ~ Jon Barnes

Integrity in my words is exemplifying a life of honesty, so that it bear a resemblance to that of Christ. I believe God is integrity. His life exemplifies the characteristics of integrity. The week readings indicate integrity is maintaining consistency in our deeds and actions, how we live on Sunday at church and how we live on Monday at work. Joe E. Trull and James E. Carter refers to modern dictionary which defines integrity as, “soundness, adherence to a code of values, the quality or state of being complete or undivided.” He goes on to reference Charles Swindoll he state, “When one has integrity there is an absence of hypocrisy. He or she is personally reliable, financially accountable, and privately clean… innocent of impure motives.” Finally, Trull and Carter convey, “The term integrity best describes the ethical wholeness of life demanded of the Christian

My passion is to tell people that Muslims are not terrorist. ISIS doesn’t have religion, and they don't know anything about Islam because Islam is the religion of peace not war. There were lots of attacks that they did, and the recent one was the Paris attack. I want to start off by expressing my deepest sympathies to all the people in France. Any act of violence against innocent people is an act of violence against all innocent people.

I grew up in a Christian church. I am still to this day in that same church. I went to Sunday school and I knew who God and Jesus were. I knew some things but when my parents told me that they were getting a divorce that’s when I felt God

My family provided me the avenue to learn about God at an early age. They taught me about Christianity and God’s word through the bible. It was a family tradition to attend church, one that spanned generations. This is where we learned about the sacrifice of Jesus and all that God created. Our church instilled the teachings of God in us and Christianity gave us a basis to live from. I was taught Christianity at an early age, the bible proved to be a powerful tool that helped develop my faith and belief. Through my faith and belief is how I know God and Christianity to be true. This truth makes God tangible to me. I feel God’s spirituality through life, and all that he has created. This is my belief, and one that I know to be true. I don’t require scientific evidence or video proof to show God’s existence, I have faith and

Jesus Christ means numerous things to people: the Son of God, Savior, the Messiah, etc. But many might still not know what happened during Jesus’s life. There are numerous stories in the Bible. His story starts in the New Testament, though the prophecies about Him are in the Old Testament. Through the Bible, people have been able to decipher the Messianic prophecies, Jesus’s death and resurrection, and Jesus’s return.

It has been fifteen years since my parents and my brother Jack adopted me. I was only two then, but now i’m seventeen. I love my life, I have a happy, loving family, I live in a nice house on a farm in Maine, my brother Jack is my bestfriend but I also have other friends, and I have a boyfriend named Justin. I guess you could say my life is perfect. Expect there’s more to me than you think. I’m adopted and even though I love my life there is still a part of me that wants to find my birth parents and know more about them. My parents tell me all about my birth dad. His name is Joseph. He loved me very much but he was only thirteen when I was born and then about a year later he died in a car wreck. Nobody really knows what happened to my mom,

It is very difficult especially in today’s society to continually possess moral integrity, but it is possible especially if you are focused and serving a higher power such as God. Although as I stated it is very difficult especially when the devil is attacking I hold a high moral integrity, and struggle to maintain that every day. It is attacked or tested every day. Which is good in my opinion because it keeps you ready on guard all the time and battle tested so once I do aggressively and actively pursue ministry I will be battle hardened and tested ready to serve God in any capacity. I like to compare spiritual warfare with actual warfare since I have been through both and continue to go through both the battles I have been through give me that experience and surviving those battles gives me perseverance. I think there is one more criteria that ministry is your calling because I have experienced this so much more this I decided to pursue my personal call to ministry, and that is spiritual warfare aka attacks from the devil in all shapes and sizes. I mean literally to the day back in 2009 when I realized my purpose in life was to serve the lord in a ministry capacity the devil has attacked me and those around me I love who support my call to ministry relentlessly. It has been never ending for the past 7 years some of the attacks have been serious life altering situations, but

I have realized how much I love helping out my community. Once I finished my service, I felt good about myself. I am proud of myself because I put hours in to help someone besides myself. I also felt in that moment that God appreciated what I did and was happy I followed in his footsteps. I also felt worthy of God’s love. I realized that I have shown compassion to others because I did teach them how they can help their baby. Helping out makes many people feel good about himself, but make sure you put the hours in. When you put hours into your life you will most likely take something out of your community service. I have followed God’s mission by creating a pamphlet that teaches mothers. That is how I followed in God’s footsteps for the past couple of

I often ask myself what I must achieve to find some semblance of stability, freedom, and safety in this world. My path so far is in line with reaching this goal of freedom and stability. To achieve safety, I’ve studied everything I could get my hands on so far collecting experiences and life lessons whenever the chance arises. I define stability as the ability to engage in financial freedom, as having the skill set to reduce the amount of work required to survive and thrive to a minimal amount of time invested each week while maximizing the efficiency of resource collection. I’ve worked for as many successful people as I could interact with hoping to glean more information to better myself with. I’ve come to the stark realization that this world is centered around a very old and very entangled power structure. To navigate through this maze of modern man I plan to devote all my time to acquiring knowledge and using it to synthesize production to add to my material wealth while at the same time enjoying myself with a good book or a video game. This strategy has served me well so far, in fact my ability to converse has gotten me where I’m today. I’m lucky to count quite a few professionals as my friends drawing on their wisdom kindness and knowledge has taught me many things about this world that most people neglect in the hum bug of day to day life.

My mom once told me when I was young and ignorant, “Faith is the foundation of a beautiful friendship with the one person who will always remain by your side”. These words were expressed even more profoundly every Sunday in the echoing corridors of a small church by a priest I had yet to know or even care about. Preaching with his perplexing words in which I could only muster barely a fourth of my full attention span listening to. Thus, the term faith did not exactly resonate with me until many years later. My early years were filled with the teachings of the bible in Sunday school and later on as well in middle school during Friday night sessions. Unfortunately, my mom was an extremely strong enforcer of our faith for she was also raised Catholic from birth, but my dad on the other hand has a more scientific approach to how the world came to be. The years I spent in Sunday school blurred into an everlasting line of bleak nothingness just a ticking clock waiting till an end. Even today I do not remember anything that occurred within those taxing sixty minuets of constant bible studies it’s as though I lost the key to the inner workings of my childhood. Nonetheless, there have always been unbelievably great role models in my faith such as my mom, youth ministers, and friends who encourage me to be open to my faith. However, it’s always been my own restrictions that prevent me from furthering my relationship with God. So when my sister suffered her first severe