Not Religion

What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion, what if I told you voting Republican was not His mission. What if I told you republican does not automatically mean your a Christian. Just because you call others bind does not automatically give you vision. If religion is so great  then why has it started so many wars. Why does it build huge churches but fails to feed the poor, tell single moms that God does not love them if they have had a divorce. But in the old testament calls religious people hores. Religion might preach grace, but its another thing they practice. To ridicule God's people but they did it to John the Baptist. They cant fix their propbles so they just mask it, not realizing religion is like spraying perfume on a casket. See the promblem with religion is that it never gets to the core. Its just behavior modification like a long list of chores. lets dress up the outside and make it look nice and neat, it's funny thats what they did with mummies while the corps rots underneath. Quit putting on a fakebook because there is a propblem if people only know your a christian by your Facebook. Because in every other aspect of life you know that logic is unworthy. Its like saying you play for the Lakers just beacuse you bought a jersey. Because this was me too. But no one seemed to be on to me, acting like a church kid while being addicted to pornography. On Sunday go to church but saturday getting faded. Spend my whole life building this facade of neatness, but now that I know Jesus I boast in my weakness. Because if grace is water then the church should be an ocean. It is not a museum for good people it is a hospital for the broken. Which means I don't have to hide my failure and hide my sin. Because it does not depend on me, it depends on Him. Because when I was Gods enemy and certainly not a fan, He looked down and said 'I want that man'. Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it He called them fools. Don't you see its so much better than following rules. Now let me clarify, I love the Church, love the Bible and yes I believe in sin. But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let Him in? Remember He was called a glutton and drunkard bu religion men but the Son of God never supports self-righteous, now now, not then. One thing is vital to mention, how Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums. One is the work of God and one is a man made invention. See one is the cure and the other is the infection. Becasue religion says do, Jesus says Done. Religion says slave, Jesus says son. Religion puts you in bondage and Jesus sets you free. Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see. Thats why Jesus and religion are two different clans. Religion is man searching for God, Christianity is God searching for man. Thats why salvation is freely mine and forgiveness is my own. Not based on my merits but Jesus's obediance alone. Because He took the crown of thorns and the blood dripped down His face, He took what we all deserve. I guess thats why they call it grace. And while being murderer He yelled 'Father forgive them they know not what they do'.  Because when Jesus was dangling on that cross He was thinking of you. And Jesus absorbed all your sin and berried it in the tomb, which is why kneeling at the cross saying come on there's room.  So for religion I dislike it, because when Jesus says 'it is finished' I believe He meant it.- Poem by Jefferson Bethke