Pastor Keith Smith shows us the difference between religion and what Jesus wants us to experience. Presented on January 28/29, 2012 at Agincourt Pentecostal Church.

1. Why Religion Can’t
Reconcile
God and Man

2. Creator God
VISIBLE INVISIBLE
Universe with Human on earth chosen
earth chosen as place for spiritual life
as the place for life “image of God”
Broken Earth Broken Image
Will be Created new by Christ
destroyed and replaced for now and eternity

3. The “Invisible”
• Revealed through Creation’s design,
complexity and beauty
• Re ected in the Broken Image of God
in human beings
• Evidenced in the universality of “religion”

4. Humans have tried to...
• Outlaw religion • Deny religion
• Privatize religion • Criticize religion

5. “Best selling books by the likes of Dawkins
and Hitchens notwithstanding, Canadians
remain remarkably pro-God and pro-
organized religion... Even among people
w h o have read i l y been a s s ig n ed
(atheistic) labels there appears to be
considerable latent religious life.”
- Dr. Reginald Bibby
leading reseracher and author about religion in Canada

6. 3 present day
views of religions
“It doesn’t matter
what religion you follow –
they all lead to the same
destination”
UNIVERSALISM

7. 3 present day
views of religions
“All religions have
good and bad –
so just take
the best of all religions”
SYNCRETISM

8. 3 present day
views of religions
“Religions are the cause of many
of the world’s problems –
so all religion should be rejected”
N E W AT H E I S M

9. Religion is evidence of our
broken image

10. Jesus is God coming to us
providing grace so we can be
spiritually recreated

11. “Whoever believes in the Son has
eternal life, but whoever rejects the
Son will not see life, for God’s wrath
remains on him.”
- John 3:36

12. “He who has the Son has life;
he who does not have the Son of God
does not have life.”
- 1 John 5:12

13. “Salvation is found in no one else,
for there is no other name under
heaven given to men by which we
must be saved.”
- Acts 4:12

14. “For as I walked around and looked
carefully at your objects of worship, I even
found an altar with this inscription:
TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.
Now what you worship as something
unknown I am going to proclaim to you.”
- Acts 17:23

15. Jesus is restore us to Himself
who came to
God
• Religious founders say,
“I will show you the way to nd God”
• Jesus says,
“I am God and I came to nd you”

16. Jesus did for us
what religion is helpless to do

17. Jesus is returning
for His followers
who will join Him in eternal life