Someone recently told me the problem with Judaism, Islam, and Christianity is that they are religions of words. Learning words, hearing words, reading words, repeating words.
Too often the journey begins and ends with words.
Words divide us while uniting some of us.
Somewhere along the journey we lose the spirit of the words. The spirit behind and encompassing the words.
I think my friend’s observation was only partially correct. That is, they only saw part of the situation.
We read in the letter of James, the apostle, church leader, and brother of Jesus (1:27), “True Religion—Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
Anyone can memorize and regurgitate words.
It takes a true disciple of Jesus to get off one’s backside and go out to serve.
Shall we find true religion?
Faith Venture 
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