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<p style="font-size:xx-small;"> Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider
themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise.Interestingly
enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing,
there is little to no trend in the number of those who
express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People arent saying they dont believe
in God. Theyre saying they dont believe in religion. They are not
rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church.This begs the question,
Why are we losing our religion?Some may be losing their religion, but
I challenge the notion that faith in general is waning.I believe, instead,
the trend of people who dont identify as part of an organized
religion speaks to an increasing wariness of labels in our culture. Those
labels carry baggage for many who might have been hurt by the
Church or let down by religion.You see, religion alone can only take
a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ
can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an
inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship
centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about
Jesus.In order to become a new person, we need Christ. Only through
an active ongoing relationship with Jesus can we become transformed and
overcome the labels that bind us.In fact, Ive struggled with what people
think of my label: pastor. For many, this label carries emoti
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local university. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)The Associated PressIn this March
27, 2013 photo, Cassie Quinlan, 69, poses for a photo in her
Concord, Mass., home. Almost 40 years ago, Quinlan drove one of the
Boston public school buses that took black students from the citys Roxbury
neighborhood to a predominantly white high school in Charlestown. She said
that dozens of white protesters would line the curb and police would
have to make a wall at the bus door so black students
could get into school. Quinlan said her experiences opened her own eyes
to black culture, and she became the first white member of a
black gospel choir at a local university. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)The Associated
PressIn this 1974 file photo, police guard while black students board a
school bus as Boston begins a school busing program. The nonprofit Union
of Minority Neighborhoods is hosting a group of exercises across Boston
in 2013, where participants talk about how the citys busing crisis impacted
them in the 1970s. Organizers hope it will unite people to fight
for better access to quality public schools for all students, even as
another new Boston school assignment system starts. (AP Photo/Peter Bregg,
File)The Associated PressBOSTON Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from
her home in Boston's Dorchester section to her old middle school in
South Boston a journey of just two miles, but one
that covered a huge emotional distance. Finally, she was able to le
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