An Opinion-based Christianity is NOT christianity. Christianity is based upon the word of God alone, not opinions of men!
Having broken the 4th finger shaft of my right hand during a basketball accident 2 weeks ago, my hand is now in a brace (or a hand joint).The brace covers my last 3 fingers and extends over my forearm such that I’m unable to move my wrist and the last 3 fingers of my hand. Thank God that my hand isn’t put in a cast, otherwise, I would have itched to death by now. Prior to switching over the a brace, my hand in a cast for 2 days and I was itching badly already. Read the rest of this entry »
I broke my hand during a basketball game, so I would be minimising my typing time for these few weeks.
End of something else too.
This is a new chapter in my life.
Today, I woke up again with a heavy burden in my heart for my church once again. Week after week, it is increasingly becoming dry. There is a lack of an inner life and the outworkings of the Holy Spirit. People come to church, not to seek after God, but to seek a satisfaction for themselves, be it in friendship with others or to organising activities and feeling good about the things that they do in church.
My heart griefs for how the gospel is being prostituted by people who call themselves Christians, whether they are christians in the first place or not. My heart griefs for how God is the least sought after thing in church, but rather methods on how to do stuff in life.
Malachi 3:8 “Will a man rob God?” Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, “How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.’
I’ve just woken up from sleep and a dream. I can still vaguely recall excerpts of my dream. I dreamt that I was a basketball captain, attempting to lead a group of guys and girls, in pre-game warm-ups. I had a tough time doing it, as people were simply unconcerned and happily doing their own things. There were some who would disappear suddenly while we were doing the stretches. There were others who were chatting amongst themselves and not at the least interested to do the stretches properly. To sum it up, there was a serious lack of team effort and a common goal.
And so I awoken with a grim realisation of how this mirrored the situation in church. We are all like players on a team, training for a common goal of winning games. However, it seems as if people are only interested in using the training session to satisfy their own agendas. Some came to meet up with friends. Some came to have fun. Only few came with the desire to train as a team and work towards a common goal.
This is exactly how we are robbing God. The church is robbing God of His church. Read the rest of this entry »
