Fear.

What separates us from God?

Not sin, not ego, not knowledge.....

What separates us from God is:

Fear.

And God's Church is full of fear.

In fact they preach fear.

Thus shutting their people out of God's Presence.

Jesus said to the Pharisees: "'you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.'"  Luke 11:52 (NRSV)

For God is Love.

And fear inhibits our ability to love.

You have nothing to fear from God.

God is good.

God is our loving Father.

And a loving father does not punish his children.

He loves them and tries to help them.

And so if you want to be in God's Presence open your heart.

Love God and love your neighbor.

Love even your enemies.

Then you will be Home!

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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