From ticketing Musical gospel programs, we'll soon begin to ticket Healing meetings and regular programs since all programs are equally expensive to put together.
tickets or any fee for any gospxx. v. xf f el program. I'll do it according to my faith and capacity but no believer will be disqualified from being blessed in a meeting because they couldn't make the financial obligations to attend it.
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Many years ago, I saw a flyer of a ministers conference that was organized in Abuja in a popular church and a popular Apostle with other men of God were slated to minister.
As a young man seeking God and direction for ministry, I travelled from Zaria to Abuja to attend
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only to arrive at the venue and the meeting was "ticketed".
I couldn't pay the registration which was very high for me at that time and decided to return back discouraged.
From that day, I made a vow to God never to place a price, be it registration fee
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Anything,I mean just anything, just to make the teaching of God's grace of no effect, making people despise the very message that saves them and preserves them.
No grace preacher will tell their members to go and commit sin because there are no earthly consequences. That is a false accusation against the Gospel.
There are consequences to everyone's actions on earth.(whether na good or bad)
You go and steal, and if you are caught, a mob may lynch you or you may be arrested and sent to prison (Romans 13:1โ4).
You commit adultery, pray the husband or wife doesn't kill you or bathe you with acid. Scripture itself says that adultery brings wounds and dishonor (Proverbs 6:32โ33).
You commit fornication, you are opening the door to physical consequences such as unwanted pregnancy, damage to the womb through unsafe abortion, sexually transmitted infections, herpes, and other diseases. God is not mocked; whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7โ8). "You" not God. Thank you
The same applies to the sins of bitterness, wickedness, envy, pride, unforgiveness, malice, hatred, greed, and every other work of the flesh. Sin has consequences.
But here's what amazes me.
The mainstream churches that constantly attack the message of God's grace still have adultery, fornication, greed, pride, envy, bitterness, hypocrisy, and every other kind of sin happening among them.
Yet you will never see us blame Christ or blame the Gospel because people failed.
Why?
Because that is human failure, not the failure of the Gospel.
Every believer is a work in progress.
We are all growing daily until Christ returns or until we leave this earth. "We all... are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory" (2 Corinthians 3:18). "He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).
Our growth does not define our standing before God.
Our standing in Christ is certain because it is based on Christ's finished work, not our performance (Romans 5:1โ2; Hebrews 10:14).
God will not take His gifts away from you because you stumble.
"The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable" (Romans 11:29).
God will not take His Spirit away from you because you fell.
Believers have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise until the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13โ14; Ephesians 4:30).
Think about it siblings.
If every time a believer stumbled, God took away His Spirit, wouldn't that be game over for that person?
Who would then helps him?
Who would comfort him?
Who would strengthen him?
Who would produce the fruit of Christ in him?
Grace is not a license to sin.
Grace is God's divine empowerment working in us to transform us and to enable us to deny ungodliness.
"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world" (Titus 2:11โ12).
At the same time, I understand that growth is a process.
Babies do not become adults overnight.
Spiritual maturity also takes time.
That is why the apostles constantly encouraged believers to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).
God definitely didn't make this person mad, never! Mba! Iro nla! No!
You cannot assume you know the full story unless you are the person it happened to.
Perhaps the person started taking hard drugs and it affected his mind.
Perhaps there were medical issues.
Perhaps there were circumstances you know nothing about.
The point is this: stop building doctrines on assumptions and stories.
I encourage believers to teach the Gospel and leave stories alone.
"Let God be true, but every man a liar" (Romans 3:4).
Let God's Word be our final authority.
Let the teaching of God's grace remain true because it is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16).
That is the message.
God's grace.
If you have ever been truly lost before, you will
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Any message that reaches men without leading people to Christ is not the gospel no matter it's seeming result.
If those results don't lead the people to Christ then it's a waste of effort and time and it adds no value to the Kingdom.
You don't need to decenter Christ to reach more souls or preach the kingdom.
The is no gospel of the kingdom without Christ in it.
The gospel still remains the power of God unto salvation.