---
title: 'Personal Religion'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Alexander Mackay'
date: 1943-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
- 'Gospel'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 15'
- '2 Samuel 12'
- 'John 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/mackay-1943-personal-religion
---

# Personal Religion

President Mackay's 1943 address urges personal religion—rooted in self-knowledge and an acquaintance with God—contrasting it with inherited or professional faith and stating the gospel core.

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