Fr. Vincent Lampert: "I hear a growing trend today of people who, who say that, well, they don't need the church, they don't need religion, it's just Jesus. But I would suggest that we can't have Jesus without religion and without the church.
If we do, we have a Jesus of our own making and not Jesus for who He truly is. You think of Peter's profession of faith at Caesarea, Philippi, where he says, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus says, well, blessed are you, you know, Simon bar-Jonah, because no one has revealed this to you except My Father in heaven.
So it's the recognition, it's not what we define, it's how God is defining and for us to come to that knowledge of who God is. But I think there's a danger when we start recreating God in our image rather than recognizing that we are created in the image and likeness of God.
Because if we want to recreate God, then we can justify just about anything that we want."
Armor of God: Spiritual Warfare
Fr. Vincent Lampert: "I hear a growing trend today of people who, who say that, well, they don't need the church, they don't need religion, it's just Jesus. But I would suggest that we can't have Jesus without religion and without the church.
If we do, we have a Jesus of our own making and not Jesus for who He truly is. You think of Peter's profession of faith at Caesarea, Philippi, where he says, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus says, well, blessed are you, you know, Simon bar-Jonah, because no one has revealed this to you except My Father in heaven.
So it's the recognition, it's not what we define, it's how God is defining and for us to come to that knowledge of who God is. But I think there's a danger when we start recreating God in our image rather than recognizing that we are created in the image and likeness of God.
Because if we want to recreate God, then we can justify just about anything that we want."
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