Can I Do Yoga?

Can Christians do yoga if its based on other spiritual ideas and practices? “Religion” will always tell you to make hard-and-fast rules about things like this, but read this article about how I have tried to live in a “relationship” with Jesus where I’m free to make decisions with Him instead.

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