LOSING YOUR RELIGION (4 OF 8)
Scripture: Galatians 3:10-14
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Losing Your Religion (4 of 8)
Series: Galatians: Free At Last
James Merritt
Galatians 3:10-14
Introduction
1. Let's begin with a question and see how many will guess the right answer. What is the largest ''religious group'' in the united states today? Actually, it is a trick question, because the largest religious group in America and the fastest growing are those who are called ''nones.'' these are Americans who are completely, religiously unaffiliated. Twenty-five percent claim no formal religious identity at all. In a way you can't blame them, because trying to even choose a religion can be very frustrating and confusing.
2. Someone sent me a flowchart for choosing your religion and it looks like this. [jody- put chart in sermon notes].
- start from the top and go left to right, top to bottom
3. It is meant to be humorous and it is done in fun and yet even though on the surface it appears that religions are radically different, at the end of the day every religion is basically trying to answer the same two questions:
1) how do you relate to god?
2) how can you have a relationship to god?
Now, not only do all religions basically ask the same two questions, but they all basically give the same answer. Here is their answer - how you lived before you die, determines where you go after you die. Or, to put it another way, what you do this side of death determines what happens to you on the other side of death.
4. From all of this comes many religious debates. Some people say it doesn't matter which religion you practice, just pick one, because we are all trying to get to the same place. We are just taking different paths. Some people say, ''no. There is only one religion that has the right prescription and the right formula for all the things that you have to do if you want to be rightly related to god. When you realize you've got over 4,200 options to choose from it is no wonder that a growing majority of people are throwing their hands up a ...
Series: Galatians: Free At Last
James Merritt
Galatians 3:10-14
Introduction
1. Let's begin with a question and see how many will guess the right answer. What is the largest ''religious group'' in the united states today? Actually, it is a trick question, because the largest religious group in America and the fastest growing are those who are called ''nones.'' these are Americans who are completely, religiously unaffiliated. Twenty-five percent claim no formal religious identity at all. In a way you can't blame them, because trying to even choose a religion can be very frustrating and confusing.
2. Someone sent me a flowchart for choosing your religion and it looks like this. [jody- put chart in sermon notes].
- start from the top and go left to right, top to bottom
3. It is meant to be humorous and it is done in fun and yet even though on the surface it appears that religions are radically different, at the end of the day every religion is basically trying to answer the same two questions:
1) how do you relate to god?
2) how can you have a relationship to god?
Now, not only do all religions basically ask the same two questions, but they all basically give the same answer. Here is their answer - how you lived before you die, determines where you go after you die. Or, to put it another way, what you do this side of death determines what happens to you on the other side of death.
4. From all of this comes many religious debates. Some people say it doesn't matter which religion you practice, just pick one, because we are all trying to get to the same place. We are just taking different paths. Some people say, ''no. There is only one religion that has the right prescription and the right formula for all the things that you have to do if you want to be rightly related to god. When you realize you've got over 4,200 options to choose from it is no wonder that a growing majority of people are throwing their hands up a ...
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