Kalled,

The idea does NOT fit into Scripture.

Ask your Methodist friend; "What does having a personal relationship to Jesus mean?".

I submit that it may mean anything to anyone.

Believing in a "personal" relationship with Jesus may be simply an excuse for not listening to what He is saying to you by His words expressed to us only in Scripture.

Having a "personal relationship with Jesus" is a mystification (Paganization) of our language and thought, and is totally without biblical warrant. Our God speaks to us in propositional, logical and un-mystified intelligent language.

Loving and honoring our Creator is hardly the same thing as going fishing with a buddy. I am tired and disgusted with evangelicals who treat our Lord as if He were a "Shoemakers Apprentice". (Luther)

If one wishes to have a "relationship" and be a "friend" of Jesus, he should immediately begin and continue to be obedient and attentive to His words ALONE!

Denny

Rom. 3:22-24

Denny

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]