Personal Relationship with Jesus and Prayer

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Sorry, I don’t know how to really put it in words. God loved the world, sent his Son, conceived by the power of guess who? See, all three.
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Pug, precisely!

Many, many years ago, I ‘understood’ that I was in love with the Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Ever since that day, my live has become a Trinitarian adventure; focused always on striving to love God and my ‘neighbor’.

Maria
 
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Hi Mercygate.We judge by the fruits of their actions on how they follow Christ. Having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is evident by the way we walk and talk.Jesus says if you Love me you will obey me. Many say they love Jesus but continue to not obey Him. Love is more than just saying I Love You.It requires action on our part. Lets not kid ourselves for we are only decieving ourselves. 😦 God Bless.
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You say “We judge”. Who are WE to judge? Is that referring to Protestants judging?

Furthermore, to say “Love is more than just saying I Love You. It requires action on our part” sounds a lot like the Catholic notion of “works” and not a lot like the Protestant “once saved, always saved” or “saved by grace alone.”
 
How can a relationship with Jesus be anything but personal, after all he has done for each and every one us, so that we may be allowed to return to his kingdom? I don’t think it’s question about the relationship being anyhting but personal, but an issue of whether or not we acknowledge the relationship.

I did not realize that the Protestants are claiming this as their statment now. But then again, I know that many of them don’t give Catholics credit for being Christians, despite the fact that our church is descended from Christ and their churches are descended from entirely-human individuals who left our church. So, why should we expect credit for anything else?
 
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Since you introduced this thread I think I can ask you a few questions.
  1. Just what is a personal relationship w/ Jesus Christ?
  2. When I hear,“Is Jesus your personal savior?”, what does that mean exactly?
  3. What is the significance of the word “personal”?
(Can there be an impersonal relationship?)
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It means that if you were the last person on earth, the only person on earth, do you believe God the Father loves you so much, He would send His Only Son to suffer and die for you. Do you believe that when the world was created, God knew your name and counted every hair on your head. He knew you, personally at that time. Do you really understand this and can go to Jesus in humble gratitude and love with this knowledge. Do you talk to him and about him to the folks you meet, as you would the love of your life?

That is a fraction of what it means. Would you cheer for him, give him adoration on your job, even when you are barely able to say,"Merry CHRISTmas? Would you say you love Jesus when it is Politically Incorrect? Do you really know what it means when Jesus said, “if you are ashamed of me before men, I will be ashamed of you before my Father in Heaven”?

To me, that is what it means to have a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus.
 
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

2779 Before we make our own this first exclamation of the Lord’s Prayer, we must humbly cleanse our hearts of certain false images drawn “from this world.” Humility makes us recognize that “no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him,” that is, “to little children.” The purification of our hearts has to do with paternal or maternal images, stemming from our personal and cultural history, and influencing our relationship with God. God our Father transcends the categories of the created world. To impose our own ideas in this area “upon him” would be to fabricate idols to adore or pull down. To pray to the Father is to enter into his mystery as he is and as the Son has revealed him to us.

The expression God the Father had never been revealed to anyone. When Moses himself asked God who he was, he heard another name. The Father’s name has been revealed to us in the Son, for the name “Son” implies the new name “Father.”

Maria
 
*I have a personal relationship with Jesus through the Eucharist and prayer, and Our Blessed Mother.
 
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