Jesus IS Religion, and also Relationship

Yes, Christianity IS a relationship, but that should not take away from that fact that a relationship with Christ, the ONE TRUE GOD, is also religion, PURE religion. Do not despise one part of Scripture simply because false prophets and false teachers have defiled it in their own works. Embrace the Word of God, ALL of it.

"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:25-27