Everyone has the own interpretation of the biblical scriptures, period. No one can tell you whether God is this way or God is that way. What it boils down to is your individual relationship. There are 41,000 different types of Christianity alone that all claim to be the one true faith. It is good to listen to your pastor, but it is always recommended to doube check his message and to read the very message/scripture for yourself because even your pastor is human.
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I agree a personal relationship with God is important.
Apart from that I have to disagree with your view as unbiblical & unhistorical.
Jesus work/legacy was His Church not a book.
And His Church did not compile its library (Bible) until about 350 years into its history.
But if you look at the letters, Gospels & Acts that his Church added to scripture,
there is no concept at all of everyone reading a bible (that wouldn't exist for centuries) and deciding what it meant for themselves.
Just the opposite! There is an obsession with unity, including unity in faith, under clear and strong Apostolic Authority. And there is absolute intolerance of any deviation from this.
The 41,000 denominations you refer to spring entirely from the 16th Century Protestant Reformation, that invented the man-made tradition of sola scriptura & rejected the Catholic, Apostolic Church.
Until the 16th Century there was ONE faith, constantly defined by Apostolic Authority in their successor bishops, & in the Petrine ministry of The papacy . Unfortunately since 1034 there was schism between East & West but (having true Apostolic succession) both parts of the church held constantly to the same faith.
There is still only one Apostolic, Historic, faith to this day, and the large majority of Christians adhere to either part, East-or-West.
Of your 41,000 denominations 40,998 are Protestant.
This is the inevitable consequence of the new doctrine of Bible(& me)-Alone rejecting the authority of the Apostolic church to interpret scripture.
And ideas about individual interpretations or preferences, personalised christianity, and indifferentism, are simply a neccessary expedient to avoid the stark, embarrassing, unworkability of "Me-&-my-bible"......that led to the 41,000!
Jesus prayed for visible unity of faith in John "so that the world will know".
He promised to "lead His apostles into all truth" and to "be with you until the end of time" (Therefore to be with His Apostolic Successor-bishops)
That was smashed to smithereens by the Protestant rebellion of the ego; where Me-&-my-bible" decides my individual truth rejecting the authority of The Apostles & their successors. He said He would "not leave us orphans" but if we run out of the Apostolic Catholic Church we make ourselves orphans, with only our own egos to interpret scripture. This is plainly what happened since 16th Century of Christianity.
This attitude of "Me-&-my-bible" or "Me-&-Jesus" is totally unbiblcal. God always saved "A People".
His Church is, as prophecied, a reconstituted Davidic
Kingdom-of-God which He would rule forever "with a rod of iron" (Luke 1:33 &Rev 2:27). He appoints a Davidic Prime Minister (cf Matt 16:18 & Is 22:20-23)
He has a Davidic-Mother-Queen "Gebirah" (See Cana & Rev 11:19....following)
Nowhere is God's Kingdom/Church portayed as
a democracy..... of individual thoughts & feelings, and where there is no objective truth.
Nowhere is everybody portayed as infallible (or just as right) ......Everybody that is,
except Peter's successor & the Apostolic bishop-successors!!!
This is just pure modern-Americanism-individualism, not Christianity.