REALITY OF TODAYS CHRISTIANITY PART 2 THE POISONOUS POLITICIANS

Hello my dear friends,
This is my second article in this reality series, I'm not intended to hurt anyone, I'm not writing about others, here I'm going to share my own personal experience and what I have learned and what the bible says!
Have you seen politicians?! Sketching out skillfully and beautifully timing and back biting people, destroying whoever comes in their paths, with cleft tongue that speaks something yesterday and something today. Who appear outwardly conservative and worse than liberal inward. Well If you wanna learn politics and become a politician you don't need to go anywhere but you can simply learn everything you want to learn if you ever get a chance to get into ministry and see what is going around, the following are my personal experiences and the things I faced personally.
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Recently a man of God asked something really weird to the congregation that he wants to lead a Church and God has given him a clear vision about that but the elders and deacons told him to keep things in prayer but he was too impatient and he went out and purchased doctor and a reverend degree for few bucks and now he started up a church right close to ours and the way he started evangelizing in a different way that is he craftily collected the phone numbers of elders, key members and tithers in different Churches. Now he is calling up one by one of them telling that this is wrong with the church and that is wrong with the church he is like this, he is like that, come to me I will give you good placement and postings and as a result some people left the churches and rushed unto him. Sad to see the same thing happening in many independent churches that don't give any accountability to any superior authority. What are we called for? to bring sheep's from others flock? or bringing back the lost sheeps? What are we doing?! Friends it time to re think! Are we in the right path? Its pathetic to see when this kinda blokes states "This brother got saved from Anglican church, this brother from Baptist, that sister from Methodist" its stupid, awfully stupid to say that. No one gets saved just because they are coming to you!! Get real. Repent and go to the lost and preach the gospel to the unbelievers. So many ministers and ministries on the rise but we hardly see people going ahead and ministering to unbelievers. Don't divide God's kingdom and cast a lot on it. Eventually we will reap what we sow.

They are Children of God and Not your slaves

Recently a very sad incident that hurt me to the core, I got a call from a lawyer friend of mine and he requested me to come to a police station and I rushed up there all the way and there I saw something that shook me to the core, a pastor was being held up there, for slapping and abusing a believer who is a married woman. I knw that pastor for a while but yet I was shocked to see him that way, the police inspector was my classmate and a very strong idolater. We extended arms and he pointed him out and told me look at your pastor and ask him what he has done, when I learned that I couldn't speak a word to plead for him. The woman believer in his church got the mobile number of other Pastor/Worship leader who came to his church and invited him for his sisters daughters marriage to lead worship who are all believers of some other church, this pastor got angry and he slapped that woman twice on her cheeks, the woman's husband is a very strong unbeliever who immediately reported things to the police and they arrested the pastor and local Hindu friends slashed out the church today.!! Believers are not your slaves!! They are nothing more than Children of God and co heirs in Christ, if you take them for granted and if you lead them in a cultic way it's clear by the word of God, you are a bad shepherd and of Devil. I'm sorry to say this but burden in my heart is day by day growing intense and I couldn't hold it up anymore so I'm writing this.

And there is another Man of God who forces his believers to fall in his feet and ask apology if they sin or if they talk to other church believers or attend other church meetings.


Recently few months back I was called into a ministry to conduct a show I went there and agreed but later they gave me a date and I called them and they refused to attend and later again I called and hanged on me, I started wonder what happened why they are not picking up my call, but later I found out just because I involved in a media ministry being run by someone they hate and as a result now they shut down on me, I'm not worried, its not my loss by any bit. Think for yourself, if you really have Jesus in your heart, will you do this?! This is ministry, God's ministry we are all co-laborers, we are not called to do politics but to serve!


Its Church dear friends, Church brought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ! Church purchased and redeemed by the blood of the lamb! Who are these people to lot it, and make it a den of thieves?! It's time to get real and open our eyes. It's time for this people to repent if they want to keep their lamp-stand. Never take the ministry for granted and manipulate and hard rule people, this is totally unrighteous. Bible clearly warns us "unless our righteousness surpasses the righteousness of Pharisees and Sadducee we will not enter into the kingdom of heaven". Surely the modern Christian politics has its righteousness worse than any filthy rag and even worse than unbeliever. This is call for repentance, repent before its too late, repent before God close the door on you forever, repent before your lamp-stand gonna get plucked out, repent before God raises the stones to speak instead of you!

REALITY OF TODAYS CHRISTIANITY (PART1)

Hello friends,
For the first time I'm going to start my articles on reality series. Some of you may get offended or irritated if you don't like the light of reality shedding on you, so please kindly read no further if you are scared to see the reality. God bless.

Revival meetings, Holy spirit anointing, Fasting prayers, Worship concerts, Conventions and so much happening around, every single day many people are coming forward and giving their life's for God. Many are getting baptized and spirit baptized. Well we need all this, and I'm not against all this. But sadly the real state of Christianity cannot be judged just by looking at this crowds. Christian life is not over with a conference, Worship is not over with an exciting time of singing, shouting and dancing. holy spirit anointing is not over after falling down on floor, Spirit baptism is not over with speaking in tongues. We need a genuine anointing, genuine worship, genuine Christian revival.

THE WORSHIP DHAMAKA

A preacher friend of mine who do go around to share the word/ assist worship leaders in worship, 7 months back he was invited to share the word in this popular youth conference held up in a place close by. He went there and they gave him a seat in the special guests row and the worship started, smoke started ascending all the way down from the stage to heavens and there was beautiful music, people were rejoicing the presence of the Lord it went on and on and on. The meeting was scheduled for three hours and the worship became dancing and shouting and jumping around, the preacher waited for his turn to share the word but no one came forward to him finally the worship leader who is an exciting young man in the field of music and the organizer discussed things as the time was already running out, they called up this preacher friend and told him to shrink his sermon to 5-10 minutes moreover the worship leader gave this statement "here after there should be only dancing and shouting and music for Lord, no need for the word and sermons, boring man, come on we are called to have fun in the Lord". The preacher got up from his seat joined his hands and said Praise the Lord and Thank you and left without a word.

Do you think that is anointing?! Do you think that is the kind of worship God wants? There can be music, there can be dancing! but what all these things gonna do without the word of God? We are turning away from the basics, we are being hyped and in a very false emotional experience and claiming it to be a genuine presence of God. The presence of God is not something that comes down from heaven during the worship and goes away after that! Its something that should stay with us all the way. Many times our worship sessions are becoming nothing more than a music concert. There is nothing wrong with music or attending a music concert but don't confuse yourself with a music concert and a time of worship. Dear friends let us check ourselves in the light of the word, are our worships bringing glory to God? are feeling the same even after it gets over? or we are just having the excitement for the time being?! Worship leaders we all need to learn one hardcore truth, this goes to you and me and everyone else in the field of worship "DO NOT USE JESUS TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC OR TO PROMOTE YOUR TALENTS OR TO BECOME FAMOUS" give glory to God. Don't lead the people blindly to an emotional experience rather lead them to the Lord, Give glory to God and let them do the same, never ever try to use God to attain fame or glory.

With this I'm concluding my words and want to attach a note to worship leaders by Lee Grady. See you soon with more on this topic.

1. Give us something to shout about! In most countries I visit, worship is an exhilarating workout. In poor countries where people struggle from hand to mouth each week, praise is so energetic that the congregation quickly moves into the aisles to dance. Yet here in the United States our worship is often stiff and way too sophisticated. What we lack in genuine zeal we substitute with technology, orchestration and hype. It’s a pitiful tradeoff.

Worship leaders must stoke the fires of spiritual passion. Don’t let the people’s hearts remain cold or stale. Exhort them to go higher. Say like the psalmist, “Praise the Lord! …Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their king. Let them praise His name with dancing. …Let the godly ones exult in glory. …Let the high praises of God be in their mouth” (Ps. 149:1-3,5,6) NASB.

2. Please give us content. Most of us packed away our hymnals 30 years ago and discovered the liberty of free-style choruses. Yet I get tired of singing the same phrase over and over—especially if that phrase has questionable theology. And we are cheating people if half of a song consists of lines like “Ooh, Ooh, Ooh!” or “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

There’s a reason “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” is a classic. Its words inspire deep worship in a way that simpler songs can’t. The best solution is to mix up the playlist with both new and old songs—as well as old songs with new arrangements. If we only sing today’s trendy Top 40 we will forget where we came from.

3. Spare us the concert. True worship leaders lead rather than perform. We want you to play skillfully, but we don’t want the focus to be on you. Point us to Jesus!

Some worship leaders shift into extended periods of spontaneous worship. That’s great until you look around and realize that the congregation is sitting down while the worship leader has his eyes closed—oblivious to the fact that most people got lost 10 minutes ago. That’s not corporate worship. That’s a stage show.

4. Don’t run a song into the ground. Maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine: When a worship leader announces, “Let’s sing it one more time!” and then proceeds to sing a chorus again and again and again and again (and again and again), this is a form of lying. This happens especially with certain choruses that are like broken records—they never resolve.

If a song is so repetitive that it’s annoying, or if you can’t figure out when to stop it, just retire it. No one will ask why you don’t sing it anymore.

5. Please don’t burst my eardrums. I have a high tolerance for noise and I love rhythm. But I have been in churches where the music was so loud that my head rattled for the rest of the day. God can open deaf ears, but I don’t think we should manufacture the deafness. Have mercy on us. God doesn’t want us to drown out the sound of the people’s voices with bass guitars and subwoofers.

6. Show us the lyrics. Memo to the technical crew: We don’t have hymnals, and we don’t know the words by heart. Please don’t wait until we have sung the second verse of the song to put those words on the screen. (It would also be a good idea to have someone proofread the song lyrics. I was in a church where we were supposed to sing “Praise Him for His mighty acts,” but the Power Point slide said, “Praise Him for His mighty axe.”)

7. Honor the Word. There is nothing ruder than a worship leader who walks off the stage after the last chorus and then disappears to a side room to eat donuts. When the praise team vanishes from the church and never comes back, it sends a message to the congregation that these people don’t need to listen to the sermon. Not! Worship does not end with the last song; the last song sets the stage for the next act of worship.

-Lee Grady

(Editor, Charisma Magazine)