Having been around the block many times in different Christian circles and denominations, I always wondered which one was more religious. I met baptists that got filled with the Spirit and became charismatic. They would claim they are no longer religious now that they are charismatic.

Some of those same charismatics began to deconstruct hell and the devil and are now full inclusionists. Now they claim they are free from religion because they now know grace and are no longer under the law.

And again, some of those inclusionists have found oneness and are definitely convinced that they are no longer religious and have ascended to a higher frequency.

It seems that grace becomes more of the focus once you graduate from charismatic to inclusion. By this time you have thrown out parts of the Bible that make God look bad and kept the good parts that talk about grace setting me free!

But what if it is all still religion? If you are still trying to reach for something outside of yourself where Spirit is, wouldn’t that still qualify as religion? Grace to me isn’t some supernatural potion that God gives us to prove he is a good God. Grace is actually who we are without all the trauma responses.

I don’t think we have to keep climbing the spiritual corporate ladder to attain who we have always been. When we are religious in the negative sense of the word, we are still needing a potion/methodology to psych ourselves out and somehow prove to ourselves that we deserve love.

So the claiming of grace from some spiritual force is just as religious as condemning the law of condemnation as religious. And that now I am free from one thing by comparing myself to another thing.

Why not just be content with being yourself? Is that not enough? We have to create an external god to feel secure internally? You are I AM! I AM that I AM has sent me. You sent yourself in the form of visibility. And all the characters you made up are just parts of you.