The Emptiness of Ritual

When we focus more on Christ than anything else we will not need rituals. In fact rituals feel silly and empty to the born again believer who walks with Christ living in them.

Rituals are for those who lack faith and have their confidence in those rituals instead of Christ. They have to keep doing them over and over again, mindlessly and continually to feel a sense of safety.

Mark 7:13-14 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so” in many such matters. 14 Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:…"

Ritual reminds me of a saying by Albert Einstein: "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result."