Getting Right With God

For centuries, numerous people have asked "How do you get right and stay right with 'god'?" Since a person's god is whatever they value (love) the most, possible gods are limitless. When asked from the Judeo-Christian perspective, the question is narrowed but the answers are extremely diverse. Due to many identified factors, the author believes incorrect answers have been too frequently offered, starting soon after the death of Jesus and continuing to this day.

Due to God's nature and ours, the author bases his answer exclusively on appropriate (God-like) love as described and practiced by Jesus. The ancient Hebrews recognized the original answer and Jesus repeated it when he insisted we love God above all else and then love our neighbor as our self. Paul got it all wrong. Jesus did not fill the empty spaces in Paul's Judaism. Believe Jesus and act like it.

I am one of seven children, was raised on a small farm in MS. My education includes a B. A. From Millsaps College plus a B. D. and MDiv. from Vanderbilt Divinity School. I am an ordained United Methodist minister with forty-two years of active ministry: fourteen as a church pastor, twenty-three as an Air Force chaplain and five as a V. A. Chaplain. For my expressed opposition to segregation in the 1960s, I was forced to leave MS and later selected for Who's Who in Methodism. I am a certified counselor for Alcoholism in TX.I retired from the Air Force as a Lt. Colonel and have written four books: Joseph's Journey. A Pain In the Gut, Could it be? Biblical Gems from the Garbage Dump, Bound By Beliefs (Reprinted of Getting Right With God). My wife of sixty-five and I have two children and now live in TX, where we have lived for the last twenty-five years.