“When I finally did become a Christian in my early 20s, I entered a tradition with a thick, heavy catechism which gave precise order to a world I had heretofore found difficult and chaotic. I loved that book. These “rules” seemed logical and I wanted to follow them. I wanted to please an exacting God of Justice.

The closer I grew to God, and the more I experienced God as love, I began to want to follow God’s law out of relationship rather than out of a transactional pleasing, rather than a tireless earning of good graces. Religion transformed into relationship.”

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