POPE Francis Warns ANY "Personal Relationship with Jesus is Dangerous"

Christians are not made in a laboratory, but in a community called the church, Pope Francis said.

At his weekly general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his series of audience talks about the church, telling an estimated 33,000 people that there is no such thing as "do-it-yourself" Christians or "free agents" when it comes to faith.

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Pope Francis described as "dangerous" the temptation to believe that one can have "a personal, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ without communion with and the mediation of the church."

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NOBODY has a personal relationship with Jesus

This is the difference between Catholics and Protestants. Why is this a surprising statement?

I wouldn't even call Catholics Christians. They are satanists and don't even know it.

He is going out of his way to include everyone except for Bible-believing Christians into his fold.

His "succession" is built on a lie, paved by heretics, satanists, pedophiles, murderers and specifically, murderers and torturers of Christians who would not succumb to their pagan doctrine.

This is not surprising but just after the Islamic prayers in his "church" made of gold and declaration that Atheists and everyone can get to Heaven w/o Christ (Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth And the Life. NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT BY ME.") tells me the timing is too perfect.

I see this going downhill for us "free-agents" in the next few years.

Even so, Maranatha and God's will be done.

I wouldn't even call Catholics Christians. They are satanists and don't even know it.

Well, he's right. You CAN'T. And nor can he! Anymore than he or anybody else can have a 'personal' relationship with Harry Houdini, George Washington, Thor, Satan, Ahura Mazda, The Buddah, George Carlin, a deceased spouse...

"Obviously, he said, it is not always easy to walk the path of faith with other people. "Sometimes it's tiring. It can happen that a brother or sister creates problems for us or scandalizes us, but the Lord entrusted his message of salvation to human beings, to us, to witnesses," he said.
"It is through our brothers and sisters with their gifts and their limits," the pope said, "that he comes to us and makes himself known. This is what belonging to the church means. Remember: Being Christian means belonging to the church. If your first name is Christian, your last name is Member of the Church."
At the end of his talk, the pope asked people to join him in praying that they would never "give into the temptation of thinking you can do without others, without the church, that you can save yourself, of thinking you can be a laboratory Christian.

Christians, he said, are not manufactured in isolation, but belong to a long line of believers who handed on the faith and challenged one another to live it fully."



I totally agree!

But JW aren't trinitarian polytheists or idolaters so that wouldn't work out very well.

Wow big time Catholic hating. The Pope probably meant that "catholic" means universal and pertains to the universal Church and the Church is the body of Catholics that make it up. He probably also mentioned that receiving the Sacraments, particularly the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist is an integral part of Catholicism and that is done at a Mass with fellow Catholics. So cafeteria Catholics who think they can maintain their relationship with Christ by not going to mass and communing with other Catholics are missing out a lot.

"Remember: Being Christian means belonging to the church. If your first name is Christian, your last name is Member of the Church."

What a strange thing for the pope to say.

I wonder what his motives are?

EXACTLY why the Pope does not speak for the majority of Christians.

Control, control, control. Think for yourself. They all just want your money. They are all one.

Fellowship is important. That is what Pope is saying.

That has to be one of the dumbest theological expositions I have ever heard.

I applaud as well!

Christ's church is made up of those who are in fellowship with Him. Only when the individuals have fellowship with Christ is it possible for them to have fellowship with each other. It doesn't happen the other way around!!