Fruitless Religion

Mark 11:12-21 What’s your first response when you hear the word religion? Do your ears automatically close? Do you groan inwardly or announce the end of the conversation? If so, why? Do you think of personal faith, a formal institution, or a set of prescribed practices or behaviors? It is a word I seldom use because it carries so much cultural baggage.        Religion is not a bad word. It means service and worship of God or the supernatural. It is commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance or a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with […]