After spending two hours in the biblical book of 1 John, I was inspired to write these thoughts. Can you tell which verse each one came from?
- Biblical Christianity is about experiencing heart-connection with God and with people.
- Happiness is incomplete without heart-to-heart connection with other people.
- When we humbly walk in the light with other people, heart-connection happens.
- Heart-connection with Jesus will teach you infinitely more than a sermon ever can.
- Religious information without heart-connection with the living Jesus is powerless.
- Love establishes and maintains heart-connection with God and with people.
- True fellowship is heart-to-heart connection, not casual socializing.
- People’s hearts connect when they tell each other about their experiences with Jesus.
- Hostility disconnects hearts.
- Hatred is heart-disconnection. Caring requires a humble, open heart.
- Your heart can connect, even with your enemies, if you will see them thru God’s love.
- To choose darkness over light is to break connection with the living Jesus.
- Heart-connection with the living Jesus causes us to want to keep His commandments.
- When your heart is disconnected from the living God, it’s subject to much malware.
- Heart-connection isn’t just sentiment. It produces caring actions and encouraging words.
- Heart-connection with Jesus, leads us to obey Him & frees us from self-condemnation.
- All the religion in the world, does us little good, if we’re disconnected from God.
- When your heart is connected with the living Jesus, you overcome the world’s malware.
- People who are connected to Jesus’ network, experience connection to each other.
- Heart-connection with Jesus dissolves human hierarchy into mutual humility.
- When we connect heart-to-heart, the living God is present and active among us.
- God showed His heart-connection to us by sending His Son, so that we can connect with Him.
- Superficial interaction is incomplete. We’re designed for heart-to-heart connection.
- To hide your heart is to rob yourself of the delight of living in God’s light.
- To hide and protect your heart is to choose to disobey: “Quench not the Spirit.”
- When your heart is actively connected with Jesus, you can’t ignore His presence.
- Heart-connection with Jesus creates many amazing interactions and experiences.
- The more our heart is connected to Jesus, the more He will live His life in and through us.
- If you will let your heart connect with Jesus, you’ll wonder why you were ever afraid.
- If your heart is truly open to Jesus, it won’t be closed to people.
- This is how we know our heart is connected to the living Jesus: We obey Him.
- All wrongdoing is malware that disrupts our connection with the living Jesus.
- We need Christ’s inner volcanic eruption to overcome our tendency toward corruption.