Don't work on your relationship with God

clipped from experimentaltheology.blogspot.com A female student wanted to visit with me about some difficulties she was having […]We walked around campus as we talked […] When she reached spiritual matters we had the following exchange: "I need to spend more time working on my relationship with God." I responded, "Why would you want to do that?" "Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?" "Let me answer by asking you a question. Can you think of anyone, right now, to whom you need to apologize? Anyone you've wronged?" She thinks and answers, "Yes." "Well, why don't you give them a call today and ask for their forgiveness. That might be a better use of your time than working on your relationship with God." My point in all this is that contemporary Christianity has lost its way. Christians don't wake up every morning thinking about how to become a more decent human being. Instead, they wake up trying to "work on their relationship with God" which very often has nothing to do with treating people better. How could such a confusion have occurred?