(RNS) — In a new book, Diana Butler Bass says our understanding of Jesus needs to be informed by personal experience. (RNS) — My earliest memory of Jesus is as a Sunday school flannelgraph cut-out. I ...

The song “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode describes the faith of many: “Your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers. Someone who cares.” In this post, John Suk, a professor of homiletics at ...

How important is a personal relationship with Jesus? Some of my evangelical friends define Christianity as a personal relationship with Jesus. Everything else is adiaphora, except maybe the worship ...

I recently re-read Rob Bell’s best selling book, Love Wins, and was pleasantly shocked at how much of it I agree with. Well, I agree with about 80% of it. The problem is that the other 20% is wrong ...

A Protestant in one of the Facebook groups I am part of, observed (paraphrased): The emphasis of Catholics is for you to join their Church. But the emphasis of Protestants is to want others to ...

In the summer of 1989, Britons opened the “personal” sections of regional newspaper classified adverts and saw a curious entry. “Your own personal Jesus”, it read, followed by a telephone number. Call ...

For an Evangelical Christian the “personal relationship with Jesus” has very little to do with the Church, the sacraments or any external, objective verification of the religious experience.