Personal Religion of Jesus

The religion of personal spiritual experience is the religion that Jesus himself practiced, and the religion that he taught to his followers. This revolutionary religion is based on the reality of personal spiritual experience with God in connection to the gospel of the kingdom: The reality of the Fatherhood of God and the resulting reality of the brotherhood of all mankind. Jesus founded the religion of personal experience in doing the will of God the Father and serving the human brotherhood. In the years subsequent to his life, crucifixion, and resurrection, this religion OF Jesus was transformed into the religion ABOUT Jesus, i.e., the religion of the risen Christ. But to really follow Jesus, while one may preach a religion about him, one must inevitably live the religion that he himself taught and lived. Jesus’ personal religion is rendered practical for the individual when it is based on the gospel of the kingdom: The reality of the Fatherhood of God, and the resulting corollary, the brotherhood of mankind. But first, we must discover God in order to enjoy personal spiritual experience with him. God lives within each of us as a guiding Spirit presence and Jesus understood and taught this reality. God is accessible to each of his children through this indwelling Spirit.