John 8.36 - Spiritual, but NOT Religious

John 8.36 - Spiritual, but NOT Religious

“I’m spiritual, but NOT religious…I enjoy checking out European cathedrals.” Our cool Facebook friends sound like that.  Spiritual is hip. Southampton University in England studied 15,000 North Americans who concluded ‘intrinsically religious’ people are desirable, ‘extrinsically religious’ people are not. So statistics prove spiritual people have sex appeal, but religious people do not! ‘Religion’ is from the Latin for ‘bind, regulate’ and that is JUST what we DON’T want. Nobody tells us what to do. We are free. But, paradoxically, the Gospel invites us to grace-based structure and order. In the freedom of the Lord Jesus Christ we find meaning and purpose in life.