{"id":671,"date":"2007-10-14T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/christians-are-religious-no-theyre-not-or.html"},"modified":"2007-10-14T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T22:23:36","slug":"christians-are-religious-no-theyre-not-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/christians-are-religious-no-theyre-not-or.html","title":{"rendered":"Christians are religious. No they&#8217;re not. Or&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Are Christians religious?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<table width=\"230\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/CottrillCompass.com\/images\/stained-glass.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"187\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stained glass window\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I have a feeling that question brings out some passionate responses in a lot of people. &nbsp;For some, it&#8217;s an emotionally loaded issue.<\/p>\n<p>It could be argued that it&#8217;s really a question of semantics. &nbsp;Both the words &quot;Christian&quot; and &quot;religious&quot; are widely open to interpretation. &nbsp;Christian probably started out as a derogatory term (in what is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=51&#038;chapter=11&#038;verse=26&#038;version=50&#038;context=verse\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Antakya, Turkey<\/a>), and is now often used in a pretty general way based on heritage. &nbsp;Religious &#8211; well, we&#8217;re getting to that.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re a follower of Jesus, are you <i>religious<\/i>? &nbsp;If your answer is yes, should you admit it?<\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;m going to offend just about everyone by saying that, no, Christians are not religious. &nbsp;<i>AND<\/i>&#8230; yes, they are.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been fairly fashionable for most of my lifetime to say that Christians are <i>not<\/i> religious. &nbsp;I know, people are pulling this out now like it&#8217;s a new idea, but really it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the arguments went like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christianity is not a set of outward rituals, but a heart-change<\/li>\n<li>Christianity is not things you must <i>do<\/i>, but a relationship with God<\/li>\n<li>Christianity is not about organs, pews and dressing up on Sunday, it&#8217;s an inward change<\/li>\n<li>Christianity is not &quot;just another religion&quot; but something different<\/li>\n<li>Religion is man&#8217;s effort to reach God, Christianity is God reaching out to man (who came up with this one? &nbsp;Just curious.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of truth here (if a tad simplistic!). &nbsp;I appreciate the effort to distance Christianity from &#8230;. well, trying to find salvation in a bunch of rules and rituals. &nbsp;It <i>is<\/i> all about inward change, and a relationship. &nbsp;This theme is repeated over and over in the Bible &#8211; following laws won&#8217;t save or transform you, it takes a work of God on the inside (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=55&#038;chapter=3&#038;verse=23&#038;end_verse=25&#038;version=50&#038;context=context\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Gal 3:23-25<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Rom%203:10-27;&#038;version=50;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Rom 3:10-27<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What does the Bible say about religion? &nbsp;Religion isn&#8217;t a word commonly used of Christianity. &nbsp;In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Col%202:16-3:17;&#038;version=50;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Col 2:16-3:17<\/a> Paul contrasts human religion with the reality in Christ. &nbsp;Human religion is a bunch of self imposed rules and false humility. &nbsp;Christianity is a new life in Christ, in which we obey <i>His<\/i> commands.<\/p>\n<p>James talks about religion as well, in a rather ironic way.&nbsp; While assuming Christianity is a &quot;religion&quot;, he actually talks about it as a kind of anti-religion. &nbsp;Not so much concerned with ritual, <i>pure<\/i> religion to James is controlling your tongue, visiting orphans and widows, and keeping unstained from the world (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James%201:26-27;&#038;version=50;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Jam 1:26-27<\/a>). &nbsp;The Bible, it would seem, is rather suspicious of the term <i>religion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<table width=\"230\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/CottrillCompass.com\/images\/religious.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Religious?\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>On the other hand, look at it from the perspective of <b>Joe I-don&#8217;t-believe-anything<\/b>, or <b>Sam I-ain&#8217;t-a-Christian<\/b>. &nbsp;Should you, a &quot;Christian&quot;, say you&#8217;re not religious?<\/p>\n<p>On the pro side, you&#8217;re distancing yourself from organs and pews, not eating ice cream on Sunday and whatever other rules you can think of. &nbsp;You&#8217;re distancing yourself from &quot;organized religion&quot;, which many people have had a bad experience with. &nbsp;You&#8217;re focusing on something more relational, vital, real.<\/p>\n<p>But then, lo and behold &#8211; you&#8217;re a member of a group with a common set of beliefs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=52&#038;chapter=6&#038;verse=17&#038;version=50&#038;context=verse\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Rom 6:17<\/a>). &nbsp;You get together with this group and perform rituals &#8211; like baptisms (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=47&#038;chapter=28&#038;verse=19&#038;version=50&#038;context=verse\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Mat 28:19<\/a>) and communion (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1Cor%2011:23-26;&#038;version=50;\">1Cor 11:23-26<\/a>). &nbsp;You have a life focused around God and what you believe He wants you to do (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Rom%2012:1-2;&#038;version=50;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"this will open in a new window\">Rom 12:1-2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Boy, that sure sounds like a religion to me! &nbsp;And &#8230; er &#8230; doesn&#8217;t following a religion make you <i>religious<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>If I were <b>Joe I-don&#8217;t-believe-anything<\/b> or <b>Sam I-ain&#8217;t-a-Christian<\/b>, I think I&#8217;d feel a little <b>condescended upon<\/b>, or, worse, <i><b>manipulated<\/b><\/i>, if I were told someone like this wasn&#8217;t religious.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia: <i>A religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Mirrian-Webster: <i>religious &#8211; relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity<\/i>\n<li>Oxford: <i>religious &#8211; of, concerned with, or believing in a religion.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Oxford: <i>religion &#8211; a particular system of faith and worship.<\/i> or <i>the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>Sounds like Christians are religious to me.<\/p>\n<p>By almost any normal definition of the word, Christians are religious, and Christianity is a religion. &nbsp;But we have to admit Christianity is <i>different<\/i>. &nbsp;It <i>is<\/i> focused on God reaching us, not us reaching for God. &nbsp;We aren&#8217;t Christians because we follow rules and rituals &#8211; it&#8217;s all about God&#8217;s grace toward us. &nbsp;Pews and organs and abstaining from this or that &#8211; these aren&#8217;t defining factors of our faith, and people need to realize that.<\/p>\n<p>So in the end, how would you answer? &nbsp;Would it depend on who was asking? &nbsp;In what context? &nbsp;If you&#8217;re not a Christian, do you consider yourself religious? &nbsp;Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p><b>Are you <i>religious<\/i>?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Christians religious? 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