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Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough is unavailable, but you can change that!

Abandon dead, dry, religious rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation with a passionate, provocative poem titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." The 4-minute video became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). Bethke's message clearly...

hasn’t. But you can try religion. You can try to follow the rules. You can try to climb up to heaven. But all you’ll do is white-knuckle your way to religious despair. It won’t work. It never does. That’s when I started to notice an interesting trend: When I juxtaposed religion and Jesus in my conversations, they took a different turn. It allowed people to pull back a little and see him in a different light. They no longer were just brushing him off, but were actually pursuing, thinking, and investigating