SPEAKING SOLEMNLY
Anyone living in sexual sins (fornication, adultery, pornography, etc), has no place in Christian ministry. Immorality is a very big deal, scripturally. The believer's BODY is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yes, the BODY. Therefore, what you do with God's dwelling place must be of colossal significance. Don't you see it?
And, because of the sacredness of Christian ministry, while you can legitimately be a struggling Believer for a season, you cannot be a struggling minister, if the struggle is that you have not overcome sexual immorality. In this regard, the category of a struggling minister does not exist, biblically considered.
This is not about being a "wounded soldier." But in any case, if a soldier takes a bullet during combat, we don't hand him over to the enemies, yes. And we also don't leave him in the frontline to continue fighting – with his wound. We take him out and away for treatment. Whether he can even return to active duty later on depends on the severity/impact of the 'wound' sustained and the assessment of the team managing his case. Taking him out of combat is a responsible act of love and not a case of "condemning our own."
Back from the digression. It is alien to the spirit of Christ, to say someone is a minister of the gospel, even though he commits immorality. The practice of immorality cannot coexist with legitimate practice of ministry. A fornicator or an adulterer is not a Minister. Cannot be.
A minister of the gospel MUST be above reproach. People MUST be safe under his care. Money, too, MUST be safe under his care. The bible insists that he sustains a high level of integrity – morally, ethically, socially.
This is why the Charismata, the gifts of the Spirit are never mentioned as qualification or eligibility for ministry. Check the texts.
So, the practice of equating giftedness with eligibility for ministry is unbiblical and should be discouraged. Being a gifted speaker, for instance, does not qualify anyone for Christian ministry. If you know all the Rhema in the book, and all the historic fine points of orthodoxy, but you're an intermittent fornicator/adulterer, you are ineligible for Christian Ministry. You need to be discipled, you should not be discipling anyone, at all.
Read the passage below carefully, to the very last verse, please: It says a Pastor:
"...must be a good man whose life cannot be spoken against. He must have only one wife, and he must be hard working and thoughtful, orderly, and full of good deeds. He must enjoy having guests in his home and must be a good Bible teacher. He must not be a drinker or quarrelsome, but he must be gentle and kind and not be one who loves money. He must have a well-behaved family, with children who obey quickly and quietly. For if a man can’t make his own little family behave, how can he help the whole church? The pastor must not be a new Christian because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and pride comes before a fall. (Satan’s downfall is an example.) Also, he must be well spoken of by people outside the church—those who aren’t Christians—so that Satan can’t trap him with many accusations and leave him without freedom to lead his flock"
On the last point above, many people who work in Hotels don't take the church seriously because the see the behind-the-scenes lifestyle of Pastors. A minister must have one life, must be not be two-faced. And he must be an example to both insiders and outsiders.
If the church is weak, Satan is only a remote cause. If the church is weak anywhere, the church is the reason why.
And now, may the glorious Lord of the church step into this seeming perpetual desolation, and pour us the blessing that is Revival.
#CryForRevival
Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”
If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.
‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.
Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?
I started looking into it and I have not recovered.
God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.
But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.
Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.
The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.
Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.
Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.
None of them knew they were collaborating.
Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.
And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.
John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”
Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.
The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.
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Day 88: went for a burial, and wanted to use it as an excuse but we don’t slack here
Day 89: was so happy I was reaching my longest streak
Day 90: spoke too soon o, I had malt because I had such a long day (no excuse I know)
Day 91: waterrr
Thank you HolySpirit! We go again
I started this thing January 1st, where I stay off soda and other drinks (except beverages) throughout the year.
So I want to document it and the challenges that come with keeping off everyday.
Let’s go!
Day 85: chose water
Day 86: same routine
Day 87: Had a blend of ugwu, cucumber and lemon😂 surprisingly yummy
Thank you HolySpirit for this sun, we go again !
I started this thing January 1st, where I stay off soda and other drinks (except beverages) throughout the year.
So I want to document it and the challenges that come with keeping off everyday.
Let’s go!
I’m at the stage where I find it increasingly hard to use more than 1 social media platform for a period of time.
Day 80: chose water
Day 81: same routine
Day 82: routine repeated
Day 83: sameeeeee
Day 84: craved something else but same routine
I started this thing January 1st, where I stay off soda and other drinks (except beverages) throughout the year.
So I want to document it and the challenges that come with keeping off everyday.
Let’s go!
Hot take:
Vibe coding doesn’t (fully) replace thinking.
It replaces hard core, coalface coding.
If you want it to actually work, you still need:
- Deep understanding of what the market wants
- A clear user experience (not just “it works”)
- Real UI design with proper affordances
- Backend + infrastructure that can scale
- Security that won’t bite you later
- A plan for distribution
Vibe coding replaces the old dev bottleneck.
It doesn’t replace product, strategy, or execution.
What do you think @garrytan?
Also, Christians who seek to honour Christ don't cohabit. They don't put themselves in a place where they can be tempted. Plus, they know that premarital sex is a sin. Like, until you're married, you're not married, even if your wedding is one day away. They know that our God, who is all-wise, wants our best and would have legitimized fornication if it is required for a successful marriage.
Christians who honour Jesus give NO PLACE to the devil. Cohabiting gives PLACE to the devil.
DICTIONARY. Cohabiting:
Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple.
– Reposted. From Jan. 2024
Day 78: more intimate time with God= habits naturally dying (of course you still have to consciously make the choice)
Day 79: I can feel my love for water growing. Lord help me sustain it !
HolySpirit thank you for this win ! We go again tomorrow 🫶
I started this thing January 1st, where I stay off soda and other drinks (except beverages) throughout the year.
So I want to document it and the challenges that come with keeping off everyday.
Let’s go!
In the last few days I’ve had to have uncomfortable conversations with myself, because I need to start holding myself accountable for decisions.
Day 76: Gladly drank lots of water
Day 77: Said no to a drink, when it’ll have been easy to say no ( I was so happy this day )
I started this thing January 1st, where I stay off soda and other drinks (except beverages) throughout the year.
So I want to document it and the challenges that come with keeping off everyday.
Let’s go!
Yesterday, with all sense of humility, a profound belief in the people of Lagos and an unshakable commitment to work for their welfare and prosperity, I declared my intention to contest the Governorship of Lagos on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in 2027.
Yesterday, with all sense of humility, a profound belief in the people of Lagos and an unshakable commitment to work for their welfare and prosperity, I declared my intention to contest the Governorship of Lagos on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in 2027.
Highlights from the Funso Doherty official Declaration of intention, held Yesterday.
With all humility and stewardship, Funso is ready to serve & stand by his people, and it shows in all the interaction he has with everyone.
Funso Doherty is definitely the man for the people.
lol. Slack wasn’t supposed to exist.
In 2009, Stewart Butterfield and his team at Tiny Speck were building a game called Glitch.
Building the game was messy. Designers, engineers, writers all needed to talk constantly. Email was too slow, messages got buried, things broke because people missed updates.
So they built their own tool.
At first, it was simple. Real time messaging. Then they added channels so conversations stayed organized. Then search so nothing got lost. Then integrations so it connected with everything else they used.
Something strange happened.
The team stopped complaining about communication. Work sped up. Decisions happened faster. People could jump into any conversation and instantly understand what was going on.
The tool quietly became the most important thing they used every day.
When Glitch shut down in 2012, they didn’t just walk away. They looked back at what actually worked.
It wasn’t the game. It was the way they worked together. So they cleaned it up, redesigned it, and turned their internal survival tool into a product.
In 2013, they released Slack to the world.
And the crazy part? Other teams instantly felt the same thing they did.
It was a product born from a real problem they had already solved for themselves.