When I meet people and they ask me, what do I do for a living? I've got to be honest with you. I

often want to lie. I

Never have, but I've been tempted to so many times

Because I could be having a great conversation with somebody who's got to kind of flow in a long and then they say

What do you do for a living? And I say, well, I'm a pastor of a church and

Every time I say that immediately the conversation changes. It goes generally in one of two directions

We could have been talking about just anything regular and as soon as I say that it turns into this hyper religious spiritual talk

Oh, well praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus glory to God. I'm a Christian too brother Craig

Okay, the other way is if they're not a Christian the conversation just tanks see me. I mean, it just goes south

Crashes. I mean, we're getting along. We're having a good time. So what do you do for a living? Well actually I'm a pastor

I had a guy that we were just talking great time getting along great. He said ask me I said pastor and he said oh

Well no offense

But I'm not a religious person and I don't really like religious people. I said that's awesome

Because I'm not a religious person. I don't really like religious people either

And he looked confused like many of you. I said no really. I mean, I don't religious people

They truly drive me crazy and he's like how can you be a pastor and not like religious people and I'll try try to explain to him

What I'll try to explain to you and that is God did not send his son Jesus who lived a sinless life

bore the penalty for our sin blood and died rose again from across Jesus did not come to make us religious

In fact the root word for religion it literally means a return to bondage

Jesus did not come to make us

Religious but he came to set us free in fact in his essence

Christianity is not a religion in his essence. It is a

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