Article of Faith
RCCG, Faith, Daddy Freeze: Christianity Without Church Or Pastor -By Nneka Okumazie
Teachers or advisors of hate are star manipulators. The fiercest of them desire destruction. They think, act and respond with hate. They use pity, scorn, fabrications, generalizations, unfair arguments, distortions, desperation, guile persistence and worthless hypotheticals to make their case.
This diversity of tools convinces some to take up hate – a bit – before procession into the dangerous zone.
Hatred is happiness for them. Promotion of hate and its acceptance is their abundant joy. They use hate to charge things up – solving no problems, just damages.
They want hate and more of it. They may think they’re fighting for enlightenment or fairness, but their stance generally threatens love, peace, impartiality and progress.
Yes, a person or group could be hurt but hate is NOT the answer to hate – no matter how justified it seems.
There are some really gross wickedness that makes love or forgiveness seem impossible. There are also some blamable failures, that not hating or getting even looks like stupidity – to the others and to the mind.
But, genuine Christianity – the solution for hate – is about love. Salvation is possible because of love. Loving the LORD is possible because He first loved. Love is the bedrock for the Children of GOD. There is no way to truly be a devout Christian and be hateful. [Luke 10:27, And He answering said, Thou shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.] [1 John 4:8, But anyone who does not love does not know GOD, for GOD is love.]
GOD’s love can never be measured by anyone. Many seek scientific or economic measurements: why are there earthquakes, or sufferings, or sickness, if GOD truly loves?
OK, why did an Apostle, full of Faith and the Holy Ghost, getting stoned, seeing Heaven, die?
Also, why would anyone serving the LORD get killed, someone faithful to the LORD?
[Revelation 2:13, I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan’s seat [is]: and thou holdest fast My Name, and hast not denied My Faith, even in those days wherein Antipas [was] My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.] [Acts 12:2, And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.]Even at the point of death, the love of the LORD and Hope in Him does NOT fail. There are questions only the LORD can answer – because there are known unknowns [things known that are not known] and unknown unknowns [things not known that are not known]
But genuine Christians know that GOD is loving, gracious, merciful and slow to anger. The judgment of the LORD or His saving Grace isn’t the binary thinking – interpreted or predicted – of humans.
Christ wasn’t a seismologist, or a doctor, an economist, or an engineer. He brought Salvation. He went about doing good. He fed people, as wonder, not as an economic policy for food. He healed people, as wonder, not as a scientific procedure.
Christ also gathered [and fellowshipped] with others often. He also encouraged fellowshipping together.
[Matthew 18:20, For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.]There was also a description of roles given in the Church and purpose. [Ephesians 2:20, And are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner [stone]. [Ephesians 4:11, And He gave some, Apostles; and some, Prophets; and some, Evangelists; and some, Pastors and Teachers] [Ephesians 4:12, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.]
The genuine Christian is the Church but are, together, the body of Christ. Yes, the Scriptures say the LORD does not live in temples made by hands. Some interpret it as building – for fellowship – isn’t important but the critics would never quote:
[1 Corinthians 6:19, What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost in you, which ye have of GOD, and ye are not your own?] [Hebrews 10:25, Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.]GOD never said don’t fellowship, or gather. Another meaning that the LORD doesn’t live in temple is that temple isn’t priority, but that the genuine Christian must live right with GOD.
Just the same as giving in Church isn’t priority, but holiness and total submission to GOD.
There were Churches in the Epistles. There were Churches mentioned in Revelation. Christ says His Children should abide in Him, and He in them. So yes, the LORD lives in His people, but fellowshipping is super important.
Those who persistently hate Christianity think they can distort the Scriptures for total confusion, they failed. [Romans 10:17, So then Faith by hearing, and hearing by the word of GOD.]
No genuine Christian is beyond growing Faith in GOD – no matter the years. So learning of Faith can also come through fellowship, just like aggressive prayer can also be in place of fellowship. [Acts 12:5, Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto GOD for him.]
The Epistles talked a lot about false prophets but does not invalidate true Apostles, Pastors, Prophets, etc.
Christianity is essential to help guard the mind, and to know what to think. It is a choice, a protective one that would often prevent the mind to go with the wind or out of control.
There are suggestions that come to the mind without doing anything. There are also suggestions that come to the mind because of what is seen, heard, experienced, or excused.
But the mind, in the wind of digital leaves it vulnerable to accepting as normal: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like.
But genuine Christianity promotes love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Anyone can hate Christianity as much as they want or influenced, but can never find perfect love anywhere outside of it, or examples of selflessness and sacrifice like in the Scriptures.
The love beyond hate is found in true Christianity. Coming to Jesus – sincerely – can solve bitterness, wickedness, evil, bitterness, hate, envy, hidden motives, unknown intentions, opaque influence, strange passion, etc.
Since many promote hate against genuine Christianity because of whatever they assumed, they reject JESUS or any hearing, or sighting of Him.
[Mark 5:7, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with Thee,
