I grew up in the Catholic Church, attended Sunday School, studied Catechism, was Confirmed, etc. Never got the message of the Love and Sacrifice of Jesus and what it meant to me because they concentrated on topics that might have well been doctorate crap. I ended up being an agnostic for decades until one day, I sat down in a non-denominational church and the message rang loud and clear. The message can be lost when high-level theology and doctrine are the topics more than the pure and simple message.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
"My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me." (John 10:27)
"Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. (John 10:7-14)