Back to Basics

This is my first blog I hope you injoy it.
So how many of you think it is hard to be a Christ follower? Well you are not alone; many of you who are going to read this are my middle school church students so this is more directed at you. I have been a Christ follower all my life and I have done all the stuff you are supposed to do. I have also done things that you are not suppose to do. I have been to both sides and I want to share with you an idea that just might change your view on how to follow Christ. I also hope that if you were at all struggling with any of these pratices that this will put it in a new light.

One of the big deals about our faith is to read our bible every day but I wonder how many of you truly know why you are suppose to. Do you ever wonder why we take communion, get baptized, or even go to church every Sunday? well I did not ask many of these question until I started looking at why God has had us do this thing that may seem pointless. The problem is from what I have seen we are lead to believe (most of the time not on purpose), that these things are directly linked to our salvation, that they are the thing that God needs to forgive us and in fact that he needs them to connect and have a close and personal relasonship with us.
So now think about this. Before Jesus died on the cross, for our sins. The way you would communicate with God was to become pure; you would do that by offering up a sacrifice to God. Normally this would be a burnt offering (which means to burn it in fire). That was to take away your sins and cleanse you so you could find favor with God. But this is not what God had intended when he created us. Before we fell from grace. Adam and Eve had (as Josh Treece would say) a naked relationship with God and each other, which means that they not only were physically nude but they had no secrets nothing was hidden from each other. And they walk and talk with him, and not like we do now or that you have heard, but literally they walk with him.
So now back to after the fall. The fall meant that there was no way to have a personal relationship with God. Needless to say God was not happy that he could not have that same naked relationship with us. So he created a plan. That entailed his son to die and become the ultimate sacrifice to cover our sins and to have a personal relationship with him.
Ok this is where you need to pay attention. get this so if we had a non ritual relationship with God before sin and death came in and, after the fall had to go through all these rules and rituals to even be able to be forgiven, and now God sent his only son to die so not only we could have that relationship back but we would have it for eternity. Then do you really think that God would make more rules and rituals for us to get through to be with Him forever.
So if the reason for going to church, reading the bible and baptism is not for our salvation. Then what are these things for. Now I am going to write a part two but I want to hear what you think about this theory, and what you think is the reason for these three practices in our faith.