tcprowling
Junior Member
As an individual, what do you gain, for yourself, by practicing your religion? Do you actually practice your religion?
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Practicing your religion
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Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Excellent response! Latter-day Saints believe that when we are baptized, we enter into a covenent relationship with Jesus Christ. I suspect that a lot of Christians would see the phrase "living up to my end of the bargain" as a sort of an offensive way of putting it, but to me, that is exactly what we do when we practice our religion. We live up to our end of the bargain or, as we would put it, we keep the terms of the covenant we entered into.Ød¥ said:
lunamoth
Will to love
You can have a relationship that you don't attend to...the relationship may potentially be there but it's not really living, or it can be anywhere from barely warm to passionate. God's love can be raining down on us but if we don't participate in it...respond in kind loving each other and letting that love return to God, it's static and not a source of nourishment for life.Scott1 said:
There's this:
Other gifts God gives us to help us nourish our relationship with Him and each other: prayer and the Sacraments, communal worship, the Liturgy, loving, forgiving, feeding, healing.
tcprowling
Junior Member
That's how I feel about it!Awen said:
I am not a practicing catholic ( My birth religion), however I do follow / practice the basics of my faith/ religion, the concideration of others. Through this I get completeness, comfort and a sense of well being. I don't go around dressed in sack cloth and ashes, nor do I expect others to follow the same path as me. To me , my religious beliefs and the way I practice them is a matter between myself and my conscience and that gives me a sense of inner peace.
Radio Frequency X
World Leader Pretend
tcprowling said:
My personal relationship with God is my religion and it is its own reward - give and take.
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
tcprowling said:
Knowing that I'm helping others and that by doing so helping the world, even if it is only in a very small way.
Gentoo
The Feisty Penguin
tcprowling said:
I gain a greater sense of the natural world, and my place in it. I'm more ecologically aware of the footprint I leave behind, and actively work to minimize it.
Yes, I practice my religion by living every day the best way I can. If that includes sleeping all day and night every now and then, then so be it!
GoldenDragon
Active Member
Practing my religion gives me a sense of self-discpline,a sense that I spiritual and Earthly responsiblities, compassion/mercy for others(not just from my religion though), and spiritual wholeness.
Do I practice my religion:
Yes I try my best to keep praticing it though I may venture away from Catholicism,not so sure about that yet.
Do I practice my religion:
Yes I try my best to keep praticing it though I may venture away from Catholicism,not so sure about that yet.
IanAlmighty
Lurking Existentialist
A guilt-free, unrestricted ego which enables me to pursue life for my own happiness and needs without concern for a spiritual authority or a distored set of values.tcprowling said:
How could I not?