Do you need an organization to tell you how to have a personal relationship with God?

Answer 1

Hell no. My late grandfather enjoyed spending time in the woods, hunting, hiking, and strolling about in what he considered God's true church. He was a kind, good-humored, caring man but never judged or preached. He had told my father that he never cared for church or other organized faiths, being that he saw a lot of hypocrisy in people (men who professed their faith but either beat or cheated on their wives). He did flip through the Bible now and then, but again never got on the pulpit and tried to witness or convert anyone. When he died, all of my fundamentalist relatives were greatly perturbed about whether he was going to Heaven or not, just because he never went to church. But I know if there is such a place, he's there right now, by virtue of his personal faith. He taught me that one doesn't have to be part of an organized religion to be a good soul.

So again, no.

Answer 2

No if you have to have an organization to tell you how then it's not personal is it? The only things necessary for a close personal relationship with God is you and God.

Answer 3

Depends what you mean by an organization...but really I don't think so and the key word be 'personal' that you said means it's a personal experience only between you and God. Nobody should really tell you how to have that but it's always good to have someone to help guide you especially your new or starting again. However there is a fine line between a guide and literally telling someone what to do.

Answer 4

Actually a personal relationship with God can only be made by you...these organizations are just there to help you in making a deeper relationship with God,which you alone established.

In summary It's your personal initiative to establish that relationship...Organizations just deepen them. God Bless You

Answer 5

No, as long as you have a real relationship with yourself in your inward man, and fight through your own bondages to experience freedoms over any given thing, then you will experience the peace that surpasses all understanding which is God. We were all given the Holy Spirit that is what Jesus Christ gave us at the cross which was the reconection back to God, and as our helper "the holy Spirit" helps us through our bondages and until you are "through" that situation over any given thing ever and experience freedom (which is Jesus Christ in the Spirit) then you will experience the wholeness of what God gives to all of us when we are true and real to ourselves. And weather people ever recognize it or not, it's a process we all go through because nobody was left out when Jesus Christ saved the whole world, people can name it many things under all the different banner waving flags of salutes toward some building, yet if they do not understand the function of the Spirit even though they are still in the process of it as well, they are the ones who are more stuck than they realize when it comes to grasping the depths of what is going on in our relationship with God through the persons He made us to be.

Answer 6

No, but if there is an organization that does have a good method or idea about how to increase devotion to God or have a closer relationship, why not learn from them?

Answer 7

No. But why the need to have a "personal relationship" with God. What makes anybody think that's possible, or is that something God wants to have with you? I believe we are here because of a being that created us...and that's it. All the adoration, fantasy tales, and fabricated rituals are all nonsense and baloney.

Answer 8

No, I think that if you fully believe in God, you don't need anyone to tell yourself how to have a relationship with God, but going to church is a good idea if you really want to know him.

Answer 9

"personal relationship with God".

A very Christian concept. There is no other religion that claims you have can a "relationship with God".

In which case, my answer would be no / yes!

No:
You relationship to God is completely upto you. All believing Christians call Him Father! The bible teaches me that He calls me friend, son (and daughter, if you are a woman), bride, child.

In fact, through the Bible, God has used all kinds of human relationships to show to us how much He loves us. (And yet, some will reject His call to come back to Him!).

At one point, we see Him comparing Himself to a mother hen who gathers her chicks under her wings! Jesus compares Himself to a friend, a good shepherd, a kind master, a husband.

Paul compares us, the church, to a bride who is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her bridesgroom, Jesus! And in that context, God as the father of the groom!!!

And yes, in the end we are answerable to God for what we do, and only to God -- sort of!

Yes:
While your relationship to God is your own personal relationship, it is also one which is shared by many others and His word tells us, requires us, "not to forsake the fellowship of others as is the manner of some". We are His church and the "body of Christ". And the comparison is very simple, we are like a body, if one part of the body aches, the whole body feels the pain. And no one part of the body can claim to the whole. It is in this context that we need to be part of a local body of Christ, sharing our talents and profitting from the talents of others.

Remember, when Jesus spoke about the story of the good shepherd who went in search of the single lost sheep the shepherd's plan was not to spend the rest of his life with that one sheep, but it was the shepherd's sole intent and plan to bring the lost sheep to the herd.

We are answerable to God and only God and to those whom God has put in authority over us. Teachers, bosses, managers, leaders, captains, coaches, etc. Hmm! Good point, right there.

Do I have to be part of a team to be a good basketball player? No! I can be a good basketball player with or without a team. But it is within the context of a team that my skills as a basketball player is put to the test, and if I am as good as I claim to be when alone, then the whole team profits and if I find I am not as good, then the others in the team will pitch in to give me that extra push to do better.

Answer 10

Read the Bible... and do try to find a good Bible based church... If you don't know where to go, I like watching Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyers... I do suggest reading the new testament first, then the old testament (which is more about history and the old laws), and if you want something that is easy read version of the Bible, I like the amplified version, and then NIV... They make Bible's now with several versions in one book.

But going to a church you will be with other people to help you...

Good luck!