Many churches do not tell their congregations about the necessity for obedience and holiness, which is our reasonable service.
Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Ro 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
>They're religious but don't know anything about relationship and that's what Christ is all about--relationship. He hated the religion of his day because it put people in bondage and it still does in some churches. God wants to set us free to love and worship Him and Him alone.
No. He hated the HYPOCRISY of his day, just like He hates HYPOCRISY today in Christianity. Yeshua said in Joh 15:14, Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. There is no relationship outside of obedience and for those who only have a "form of godliness" and deny His power. Yeshua was a Jewish Rabbi and didn't come to destroy the law, but rather fulfill it. He didn't come to discard Judaism at all and make a religion full of pagan feasts and practices. See, Sun Worship in Church Vocabulary and Would Your Church Allow You To Be Like Jesus?
Mt 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
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