I brush my teeth religiously.  I read books religiously.  I need to work out religiously.  As I listened to NPR this morning someone mentioned using a budget religiously, and I at first wondered if they were talking about Dave Ramsey.  They weren’t.  They were just using the word to imply ritualistically.  A series of motions we go through.  A legalistic method of making ourselves do something.

Lots of people say that Christianity is a relationship, not a religion; the problem is that many of our churches treat it like a religion, not a relationship.

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