You don't need a church that will affirm you or "love you the way you are".
You need a church that will train you to love Jesus more than you love yourself.
You need a church that will help crucify your flesh and mature you in Godliness
You need a church that will employ God's word and the fellowship of other saints to refine you until Christ glitters brightly through all you do.
You don't need a fun and "loving" place for religious devotions; you need the house of the Living God to learn and worship Jesus in Spirit and in truth.
By the authority of the name of Jesus, as you say a loud amen, I decree over you:
You will not miss your way. You will not walk into traps. You will hear God clearly and move accurately in Jesus name, amen,
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God's harvest will be received by laborers who are willing to do the dirty work.
"Executive Christianity" that is more obsessed with global ministries and "mega mandates" than with lost souls and worthless sinners will find no use in God's mission to redeem mankind.
The gospel is dirty work done by meek servants.
The dirty work of loving those who hate us,
Blessing those who curse us,
Patiently enduring the folly of the ignorant and believing the best in those whom God is gradually perfecting.
I once heard that Bro Gbile used to attend Deeper Life Bible Study those days in Lagos. He mentioned today of being nurtured by Pastor Kumuyi in the 70s.
I see mutual respect and honor in these two images.
God bless these two servants of His.
Bro Gbile wore just sandals oo
GENERALIZED CONSIDERATIONS – with a cry.
The public perception of Christianity, even four decades ago, was beautifully different from what it is today. Jesus had more honour on our streets then than He does now. It meant something to non-Christians to hear that someone was a Christian in those days, because Christians, based on whatever the church was teaching at the time – were better representatives of Jesus in and to the world than we are today.
In those days, people could safely assume that if Laoye was a Christian, your teenage daughter would be safe around him, your money would be safe in his custody, and he would not sell you a fake product. Such assumptions, even about believers, are unsafe these days, generally speaking. (I know there are brilliant exceptions here and there, but they are the exceptions now, not the norm.) This is why I believe we should humbly admit that whatever we are teaching today is not altogether as spiritually transformative as it ought to be, in the overall divine scale of things.
Yet it was our Lord who said:
“…let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
No candle was meant to be lit only to be placed under a cover. Salt should not continue to claim to be salt when it has lost its edge, its savour. Christianity, by design, is meant to be definitive and consequential, not banal and conformist.
Jesus, please, we need a revival!
In the day we truly seek the Lord, not too many things will get us excited.
The heart that craves God will not congratulate itself for striking gold.
The crowd and celebrities in our church will mean nothing.
The finance and fashion models won't get a front seat.
A "successful service" will be redefined to mean God having a free course amomgst His people and not men having a nice time with religious toys.