Having A Personal Relationship With Jesus

[Paladin D]

Bump.

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='Mateo el Feo' date='Aug 27 2003, 11:33 PM']
As a Catholic, the idea of being in friendship with Our Lord is quite normal; but when I hear it phrased as above ("...my best friend"), it just sounds like "Barney the Purple Dinosaur" theology.  That's just me, though.

[color=purple][b]"I love you, you love me..."[/color][/b]

[/quote]
God bless you, Mateo.

I see I'm not the only one that feels this way. I don't care for Barney Theology, either. I want my faith to be [b]sacred[/b]... kna' what I mean?

For some reason "personal relationship with Jesus and as my best friend and Lord and Savior" and all that I really cannot relate to. To me this kind of friendlyspeak Christianity is just way too saccharin sweet and I just can't swallow it, making me wonder if something's wrong with me.

I guess being raised Catholic in the way I was, it's foreign to me.

[Paladin D]

Well what [b]Skuba Steve[/b] said would be true, if Santa Claus was a bishop...

...wait, he was! (St. Nicholas)

[Norseman82]

Actually, it's probably a result of differing terminology. Catholics use terms like "interior life" or "spiritual life" to essentially describe the same thing as "relationship with Jesus".

There is a personal aspect an a communal aspect.