What Christianity means to me.

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Some of us as Christians do not understand the magnitude of our sin nature. Some of us only consider sin to be the act of transgression, the act of rebellion against God, however sin is much more than that. Sin is natural for us in human flesh conceived by a man and woman. Our nature is sinful, we have a natural ability and propensity to sin. Even after salvation our fleshly or natural appetites will try to manifest itself Romans 7 . It did with Paul and it will continue. The Church is not a house of saints but a hospital for sinners who have recognized their need for a saviour.



I am a great sinner, and Christ is my Great Saviour.



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Come now Lord.

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When reading 1st Corinthians 16:22, we must remember that Christians everywhere anticipated of the second coming of Jesus Christ as he promised his disciples. They did not know the prophetic Word was going to take thousands of years as several other prophecies have to fall in line.
This was also typical during the prophetic age in the Old Testament. The prophecy will be in two parts but the prophet will see it as one complete vision. Isaiah saw the vision of Christ’s birth and Him ruling His kingdom as one vision but it is actually being fulfilled in two parts or dispensation. Paul finishes his letter to the Corinthians, by including this prayer, “Our Lord, come!" (16:22).
Paul wrote in Greek which was the common language of the people in Corinth. "Our Lord, come!" is not in Greek, but Aramaic (in Greek letters). It can be transliterated into English language as marana tha, and is familiar to many contemporary Christians as a single word, maranatha. The Aramaic expression means (marana) "our Lord" (tha) "come". This has also been used as the name of several Churches in New York.

Christians in history have believed that, after his resurrection, Jesus ascended to Heaven and would one day return to complete the work He began in his first mission amongst us. When we utter the words "Our Lord, come!" it’s not desperate plea for Jesus to come back and get us so that we can go to heaven. Rather, we are pleading for Him to return so as to finish His work of redeeming the World back to its original state. We are pleading
for our Lord to bring a new Heaven and a new Earth. Hence, "Our Lord,
come!" It isn't a prayer to escape the tyranny of this world, but rather, it is a request for restoration, revival, and abundant life which was Gods original intent.

Den of Thieves.

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Daily Reflection and Prayer
by Mark D. Roberts
Laity Lodge Senior Director and Scholar-in-Residence

Den of Thieves

READ Jeremiah 7:1-34

“Don’t you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on there. I, the LORD, have spoken!” [Jeremiah 7:11]

As the residents of Judah continued to disregard God’s law, reveling in idolatry and injustice, they believed they were safe from God’s judgment because of the Temple in Jerusalem. After all, the Temple was the holiest place on earth, God’s special dwelling place. Surely, the disobedient Jews reasoned, God would not allow his own Temple to be destroyed. So they took refuge in the supposed safety of the Temple.

But theirs was a false security. Through Jeremiah the Lord said, “Don’t you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on there. I, the LORD, have spoken!” (7:11). Thus, even as the Lord once destroyed the Tabernacle of Shiloh, the center of worship in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, so he will do to the Temple in Jerusalem (7:14). He will use the power of Babylon to judge Judah, even ruining his sacred Temple.

Jeremiah 7:11 reminds us that we are not immune to life’s problems just because we are Christians. As a pastor, I have met with people who are angry with God because, for example, he has allowed painful things to happen in their family. They think that God should have protected them from such ills. But they haven’t considered how their own choices have contributed to the brokenness of their family. Their decision, for years and years, to invest all their energy in work and none at home comes at a heavy cost. But simply being Christians doesn’t inoculate us against all messes. Choices and actions have consequences, for us as well as for Israel. The good news for all of us is that God can redeem even the worst messes we make of our lives. In the process, we learn how to follow him more fully so that we might experience more of his blessings.

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: Have you ever been tempted to hide in a religious “den of thieves”? Have you ever engaged in behavior you knew to be wrong, expecting God to protect you from the consequences of that behavior?

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PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, nothing is more wonderful in life than having an intimate, personal, everlasting relationship with you through Christ. How blessed I am to be called one of your children!

Help me, dear Lord, never to presume that because I am one of your beloved, I can therefore engage in sinful behavior without consequence. May I never sin more so that your grace might abound in my life! On the contrary, because I belong to you and delight in being your child, may I desire even more to live according to your ways.

Thank you, dear Lord, for not giving me what my actions deserve. Thank you for your mercy. May the outworking of mercy in my life be a walk of holiness that honors you. Amen.


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Love

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Love is and has always been a choice. Loves stems out of our will to choose. we choose who we love. The very fact that God can command us to love means we have the right to excercise our will to choose. Love has been defined as " the ability to give at the expense of self. God loves us so much that He GAVE His only Son as a sacrifice and payment for our sin nature. The sin nature that was not part of our design, rather a nature of rebellion that was grafted into the perfect nature that God created us with.



God loves us. He made a choice to love us. His love for us is not predicated by our response to His love. He does not love us expecting us to love Him to the degree that He loves us. God;s love has been expressed throughout scripture as the Agape love. A love so strong that our human and finite nature doesn't give us the capacity to love that strong. However as we are being transformed in the image of God in Christ Jesus we must learn some of the foundational concepts of love.

Love is a decision that stems out of our will and not an emotion. Love is expressed through our emotions but we decide who and when we love.

we have to love sacrificially. we love without expecting the other person to love us back. love is the ability to give of ourselves as the expense of self. We love and forgive people with the expectation that we will be loved and forgiven as well. The irony lies in the fact we might not be love or we might not be forgiven. It is indeed a painful realization and experience but yet as christians we have to experience that passion of pain and the inner aches of loneliness that comes with the risk of loving someone.

Christianity like love is a call to suffering. It is a call to experience the pain and suffering heart of God. our Father the King. To love is to be given that awesome privilege to share of ourselves and be transformed into the Heart of God.

The Greatness of God.

Christ birthed in me, and I birthed in Him. He died in me, and I died in Him. Christ ressurected in me and I in him. He lives in me and I live in Him . I declare myself as a misfit in human society and culture so I can grow in Him and Him in me.Every action and spoken word today and forever in my life has to be an act of worship to Him. I submit all of my being as a offering of thanksgiving to God . God is indeed my all in all. God does not exist because He transends existence. He is is not a Being because he lacks matter, volume, weight and size. He is not subject to physical quantities He is the Author of time because He is Eternal. He is the only Eternal Effect that created all other causes. He is greater than the first cause. God's Reality cannot be represented in a mathematical equation but yet creation gives us imperical data's of His reality.

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Hati

In the spirit of solitude worship and prayer, let us take some time to pray for the people of Hati. This tragic event can shake the core of christians and none christians alike. Jesus told Peter that satan has asked to sift him as wheat. Jesus replied "but I have prayed for your faith that your faith might not fail". When satan's course is over Jesus told Peter to strengthen his brothers. Jesus didnt pray for the pain and suffering to go away nor did He rebuke satan. Jesus has the power to send satan away from Peter like He did in the wilderness, but He didnt. He allowed satan to serve his purpose in Peters life.
let satan run his course in Hati and in the world we live in, but lets pray for the faith of the people of Hatian descent and the skeptics alike. let us continue to reassure them that God is in the struggle with them. We must remember in the face of these calamities God is still soverign and He is still benevolent. As evil, chaos and destruction runs it course in human history God is in the the tradgedy with us and our families. He is carrying us and He has set the parameters for evilto operate. God is the midst of the agony and suffering with us. He is in the fire and our deaths. He is greiving with the people of Hati. This was not God's intention for them to suffer when He created the world. Adam had turned the keys of control to this physical universe to satan, and he must run his course so he chooses to rule the world by terror and fear. God has set parameters for him to operate, and in the midst of that God is running a rescue shop on the gates of Hell to redeem and save our souls.

We have to be careful not to draw conclusion and judge the people and country, regardless of they their spirituality, or practices of occultism God still loves them and He has been working out their redemption since the beginning of time. Towers fell in the days of Jesus. Natural disasters are not new, nor will they stop.

The people brought a sick man to Jesus, they asked Him, Master whose sin caused this to happen, was it his mother or his father they asked.? Jesus replied that it was neither, but rather for God's power to be made manifest. God operates according to a pattern based on a principle. God's power of recovery and redemption is still at work in the midst of this catastrophy. lives are going to be touched, people will get saved, and some will loose and question their faith in Him. We have to be there to pray that God will strengthen that country and the millions scattered all over the Globe. God is still Good. He is Benevolent. As He was in the fire with the three hebrew boys so is He now in the midst of pain and suffering. He is omnipotent. He is all loving, He is everlasting. He brought us hope in the person of Jesus Christ, hope and redemption are some of His specialities. lets us look with spiritual eyes and see the salvation of God

This is a call to arms for all christians to pray and share the spiritual gifts that God has baptized us with. This is where we express Christ in Culture. This is the mandate for the decade. This is a war cry and our weapons are in Ephesians chapter 6. lets suit up for battle because we will never know when the General will call us to fight. (provide us an opportunity to testify of his goodness and His redemption).
God bless us all.

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FEAR.

During the course of my life, I have come to the realization that fear promotes our inability to raise challenging questions to ourselves regarding our origin, purpose and destiny in life. It also robs us of the privilege we have to search the Word of God for the answers.

Fear is the reason why we live our lives in a darkened state of existence, chaos and despair. This is the same chaotic condition that the world was in before God spoke light into the darkness. Fear is our biggest enemy. It suppresses our ability to focus and trust in the perfect engineering and authority of God’s Word. It has developed in us a system of doubt in God’s sovereignty in our lives. Now we feel free to question the essence of God’s Deity, His character and attributes. God’s omnipotence is put on a trial when sight and circumstances birth fear in our minds and becomes the barometers of how we think and live.

God’s original intent for humans was to be the chief agents in His Agency. Fear is not an attribute of God. It is a consequence of the Sin nature inherited from Adam, and has become the leading cause of man’s failure to execute God’s best for his life. We have now become gods to ourselves constructing lifestyles that are destructive and depraved. We live recklessly,far from God’s expectation. We are constantly repeating the mistakes of our fathers in the name of progress. We are mastering the art of becoming wandering generalities rather than becoming a meaningful and pragmatic specific. Like kids playing with lego blocks we are constantly building and rebuilding the structures of our lives without a plan or design. Our minds are constantly whispering to us that we are created for significance, designed and destined for greatness. We don’t really know who and what we are called to be. In our carnality we think first and then we believe. In Christ the Holy Spirit teaches us that we have to believe first and then we think using the Bible as our source of wisdom and ultimate authority.

Believing stems inwardly for the Christian, the non Christian’s thought and world view is personified, centered and expressed based on what they can see sense or experience. Our belief system is the framework of our character and our character eventually shapes our destiny.

In Christ we are called to be people of Faith. Faith is a reasoned trust. Faith in itself has no value. The essence of our Faith depends on the substance upon which that Faith is based on. Application of our Faith is also dependent on the goals we set for our lives. Those goals have to be based on God’s priority for our lives. We are then required to nurture the disciplines that bridge the tension between our goals and accomplishments.

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The Supremacy Of God (Gyename)

AT THE AGE OF SIX I WAS IN THE THIRD GRADE ATTENDING SAINT JOHN'S PRIMARY SCHOOL. MY THIRD GRADE TEACHER’S NAME WAS MISS WRAY. SHE WAS VERY IMPACTFUL IN MY LIFE. MY FAVORITE SUBJECT WAS RELIGIOUS STUDIES. I CAN RECALL THE DAY WHEN WE LEARNED ABOUT WISE KING SOLOMON,THAT LESSON LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK IN MY LIFE. I WENT HOME AND PRAYED TO GOD FOR WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES LIKE KING SOLOMON. AT AGE SIX I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT GOD'S ANSWER WOULD MANIFEST IN ME BECOMING THE SMARTEST PERSON IN CLASS WITH EXCELLENT GRADES.I WAS DISAPPOINTED.

TWENTY YEARS LATER, I RECOGNIZED THAT GOD DID ANSWER MY PRAYER. I WAS ALWAYS READING BOOKS AND SIMPLIFYING THE CONTENTS TO OTHERS. THAT SKILL HAS REALLY BEEN HELPFUL IN THE AREA OF TEACHING SUNDAY SCHOOLS, NEW MEMBERS CLASS OR BAPTISM CLASSE'S. I HAVE ALSO LEARNT THAT EVEN THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE CAN DISAPPOINT YOU IF YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE NOT IN LINE WITH HIS WILL. GROWING UP I BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE MY JOURNEY OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE DISAPPOINTMENTS AND SETBACKS IN GOD. IT WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE I DID NOT UNDERSTAND HIS OPERATING PRINCIPLES. IT WAS GREAT TEACHERS AND MENTORS LIKE THE LATE DR.EDWIN COLE, DR.A.R BERNARD AND RAVIS ZACHARIS THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MY THINKING AND MY WORLDVIEW. I BEGAN TO SEE WHAT IS VERY CLEAR NOW THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN, MY WILL AND MY FATHER'S WILL.
IT IS AMAZING, TO SEE HOW BOTH CAN BE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER. GOD IN HIS BENEVOLENCE, HIS GRACE AND HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF HIS REDEMPTIVE LOVE KNEW THAT NO MATTER HOW FAR I STRAYED FROM HIM  HE CAN AND WILL PULL ME BACK IN THE FOLD. I HAD COMMITTED MYSELF TO HIM THROUGH FAITH BUT LACKING UNDERSTANDING. OFTEN I HAVE REFLECTED ON HOW HE HAD SET PARAMETERS FOR MY LIFE TO KEEP ME FROM TOTALLY DESTROYING THE LIFE AND INDIVIDUAL HE CHERISHED. HIS ROD AND STAFF DID COMFORT AND DISCIPLINED ME. MY LIFE HAS BECOME MY SPIRITUAL BAROMETER THAT WOULD EXPRESS TO ME HIS SUFFERING IN THE PURSUIT OF OUR REDEMPTION.

GOD'S REDEMPTIVE LOVE HAS BECOME THE LENS THROUGH WHICH I CAN TRY TO COMPREHEND HIS PASSION. I CAN HEAR HIM AS HE SPOKE IN MALACHI "I HAVE LOVED YOU AND YET YOU SAY IN WHAT WAY?" THE METAPHORICAL MOTIF OF OUR LIVES IS SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD: 'ADULTERY' AND IT IS EXPRESSED VIVIDLY IN THE BOOK OF HOSEA. (THE ADULTEROUS WIFE (US) AND THE HOLY MAN BEING GOD AND OUR THREE CHILDREN : THE PRIDE OF LIFE, THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE LUST OF THE FLESH).
OUR CULTURE IS DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF OUR GOVERNOR AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ESCORT. THE SIN OF ADULTERY COMES IN ALL LEVELS. MOST PEOPLE HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR VIEWS ON HIM AND THE YOUNG LADY. THE QUESTION IS BEING ASKED IN ALL FORUMS "HOW COULD A MAN OF HIS POSITION HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH A WOMAN LIKE THAT?" I ASK THE QUESTION HOW COULD A HOLY GOD LIVE IN US AND ASSOCIATE HIMSELF WITH SUCH AN ADULTEROUS PEOPLE LIKE US? THE ESCORT CAN SAY SHE GOT PAID FOR HER SERVICES RENDERING THE QUESTION TO US OF HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE SINS IN OUR LIVES AS WE PAY OUR LOVERS TO LAY WITH US. WE PAY FOR OUR SINS TO ENTRAP AND CONTROL US. (FOR SOME OUR LOVER CAN BE GOSSIP,DRUGS,ILLICIT SEX,ALCOHOL ETC.). REGARDLESS OF OUR ADULTEROUS NATURE GOD PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE TO REDEEM US FROM OUR MASTER AND OWNER LUCIFER. GOD HAS ADOPTED US INTO HIS FAMILY AGAIN AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT HAS OUR PERMISSION TO INITIATE THE RESTORATION PROCESS OF RENEWING OUR MINDS.

GOD HAS RESCUED US LIKE BABIES LEFT ON THE SIDEWALK WITH THE AFTER BIRTHS FRESHLY CUT. HE HAS TURNED US OVER TO HIS SON TO GROOM AND CARE FOR US SO WE CAN BECOME THE CHURCH AND EVENTUALLY HE IS COMING BACK TO MARRY US. HE HAS EXPRESSED HIS LOVE AND DESIRE FOR US, HE HAS BEEN THE LOVER OF OUR SOULS. GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH THE BOOK OF MALACHI "I HAVE LOVED YOU" AND WE ASK IN WHAT WAY? WE HAVE PAID OUR LOVERS AND INVITED THEM TO OUR BEDROOM AND NOW WE ARE GIVING BIRTH TO THE PRIDE OF LIFE, THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE LUST OF THE FLESH. HOW CAN A HOLY GOD LOVE SUCH AN ADULTEROUS PEOPLE.? GOD'S LOVE AND GRACE IS UNMERITED. SO WE MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.

*OUR WORSHIP SHOULD THEREFORE BE THE SUBMISSION OF ALL OF OUR NATURE, EMOTIONS, AND WILL TO OUR FATHER. IT IS THE QUICKENING OF OUR CONSCIENCE BY HIS HOLINESS, THE FOOD THAT PROVIDES NOURISHMENT'S FOR OUR MIND BY THE POWER OF HIS TRUTH. HE PURIFIES OUR IMAGINATIONS WITH HIS BEAUTY AND OPENS OUR HEART TO HIS LOVE AND SUBMISSION OF OUR WILL TO HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE.
ALL OF THESE COMBINED IN ADORATION WILL LEAD US TO THE SOLE PURPOSE OF OUR EXISTENCE WHICH IS TO WORSHIP HIM.


*WORSHIP AS DEFINED BY ARCH BISHOP WILLIAM TEMPLE (1881-1944)

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The Uniqueness Of Jesus Christ In My Life

I WAS BORN IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA. MY FATHER WAS WELL KNOWN TO EVERYONE IN KINGTOM VILLAGE HE WAS THE SON OF A MUSLIM ALAJI IN FULA TOWN. MY MOTHER LIVED IN KISSY VILLAGE WITH HER CHRISTIAN PARENTS. HER MOTHER WAS A SALES PERSON, AND HER FATHER WAS THE ASHEIKPA. (LEADER OF A SECRET HUNTING SOCIETY)

I LIVED IN KISSY VILLAGE UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS WITH MY MOM AND HER FAMILY. MY MOM LEFT FOR THE UNITED STATES WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG IN THE PURSUIT OF HER PURPOSE AND TO BEGIN BUILDING THE STAGE AND FRAME WORK UPON WHICH MY LIFE AND STORY WOULD UNFOLD.THE POETIC AND ARTISTIC DESIGNS OF GODS HANDIWORK IN THE DAILY LIVES OF PEOPLE THROUGH OUT HUMAN HISTORY IS EVIDENCE MY LIFE EVER SINCE I COULD REMEMBER. HIS REDEMPTIVE LOVE AND PASSION FOR A SPECIE THAT WERE CREATED IN HIS IMAGE IS THE MOTIFF OF THE BIBLE.

ONE AFTERNOON MY FATHER TOOK ME FROM MY  MATERNAL FAMILY UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT I WAS GOING TO VISIT HIM; INSTEAD HE TOOK ME TO HIS SISTER WHO LIVED IN WESTERN AREA OF FREETOWN. I CAN RECALL BEING KEPT IN A ROOM WHEN MY MATERNAL UNCLES CAME TO LOOK FOR ME THAT NIGHT. I COULD NOT HEAR ALL THE DETAILS OF THEIR CONVERSATION BUT THEY LEFT WHEN IT WAS OVER. I LIVED WITH MY AUNT AND HER FAMILY FOR 12 YEARS.

IT WAS IN THOSE TWELVE YEARS THAT MY LIFE BEGAN TO SHAPE INTO THE PERSON I WILL BECOME.THOSE FORMATIVE YEARS IN MY LIFE WERE FILLED WITH RICH EXPERIENCES THAT MOLDED AND DEVELOPED A SYSTEM OF DISCIPLINE AND A SENSE OF ORDER IN MY LIFE. GOD WAS AT WORK, SHAPING AND MOLDING ME IN CHARACTER AND BEHAVIOUR. HE WAS EQUIPING ME TO HANDLE THE JOYS, TRIUMPHS, PAIN, CHALLENGES AND SETBACKS THAT I WOULD ENCOUNTER AND GRAPPLE WITH DURING THE COURSE OF MY YOUTHFUL DAYS. THOSE MEMORIES ARE RICH AND VIVID.

THERE WAS A REVEREND LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY AUNT'S HOUSE IN A SMALL TWO ROOM SHACK PAINTED WHITE WITH BLACK TRIMMINGS. IMAGES OF HIM ARE STILL LOCKED IN MY MIND. HE WOULD WEAR HIS MINISTERIAL ROBE AND COLLAR AS HE WOULD WALK TO THE KRU TRIBE CHURCH DOWN THE STREET WHERE HE WOULD CONDUCT SERVICES.I WOULD OFTEN VISUALIZE MYSELF IN HIS POSITION. I WANTED TO BE A REVEREND AND I WOULD PLAY PRETEND IN THE UPSTIARS VERANDA WITH PEICES OF ROCKS LINED UP AS IF THEY WERE MEMBERS OF A CONGREGATION SITTING IN A CHURCH PEW.

MY PASSION DURING THOSE DEVELOPMENTAL YEARS WAS TO BE IN CHURCH EVERYDAY.
I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT MY SPIRITUALITY MATTERS. MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS A MUSLIM. MY MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS WERE CHRISTIANS. I MUST CLARIFY HERE THAT INTERFAITH MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS WERE NOT A TABOO IN SIERRA LEONE AS WE EXPERIENCE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD TODAY.
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS WOULD HAVE DEVOUTION TOGETHER OR SEPERATELY AND THERE WERE NO CONFLICT OR VIOLENCE. WE UNDERSTOOD THAT WE WERE ALL GROPING AND SEARCHING FOR ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD. MOST OF OUR DISCUSSIONS WOULD BE ABOUT THE SIMILARITIES OF BOTH FAITHS AND WHAT BINDS US TOGETHER RATHER THAN WHAT DIVIDES US. WE ENJOYED THE RELIGIOUS FEASTS TOGETHER. WE OFTEN LOOKED FORWARD TO RAMADAN AS WE WOULD CHRISTMAS. MEALS OF LUXURY WOULD BE SHARED AMONGST NEIGHBOURS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS. WE WERE BONDED BY LOVE. A UNIQUE SENSE OF APPRECIATIVE LOVE THAT WE ALL ACCEPTED AS A WAY OF LIFE.
MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS ALSO A LEADER OF A SECRET SOCIETY THAT SOME WOULD RELATE TO AS OCCULTISM.

THE QUESTION THAT HAS BEEN POSED TO ME FREQUENTLY IS WHY DID I BECOME A CHRISTIAN? I WAS EXPOSED TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN RELATION TO SPIRITUALITY IN SIERRA LEONE. RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN FREETOWN WAS SACRED AND RESPECTED WITHOUT QUESTIONS. AS A YOUNG BOY I HAD MY EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE. I WAS ALWAYS BURDENED, AND I QUESTIONED MYSELF ABOUT THE ORIGINALITY OF EVIL AND MISCHIEF IN MY HEART AND THE CORRUPTION OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEMS. WAS THIS ALL THAT LIFE WAS MEANT TO BE? DOES LIFE IN ITSELF HAVE A PURPOSE AND MEANING? WHAT WAS THE PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE BENEVOLENT GOD, WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULTIC PRACTICES THAT TERRORIZED OUR MINDS AND HAUNTED OUR DREAMS? IS THERE ANY RESTORATION? MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW CAN I ACQUIRE SUCH RESTORATION AND BE IN A RIGHTFUL POSITION WITH THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE THAT DETERMINES WHERE EACH OF US WILL SPEND ETERNITY.

THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW WAS THE ONLY LENS THROUGH WHICH I COULD SEE THE FRAME WORK OF THE WORLD WITH PURPOSE, MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE. THE INCARNATE WORD OF GOD IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST GAVE ME AN EXCLUSIVE ANSWER TO MY QUESTIONS. THE UNIQUE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN HUMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE MADE HIM A CREDIBLE WITNESS FOR THE CHARACTER AND ATTRIBUTES OF HIS FATHER NOW MY FATHER. HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BORROW OR EXTRACT ANYTHING FROM ANOTHER RELIGIONS. HE PROVIDED CONVINCING AND CREDIBLE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS OF MY DEPRAVITY THAT WAS FRAMED AROUND THREE CONCEPTS: EVIL, JUSTICE AND FORGIVENESS. THOSE THREE CONCEPTS CONVERGED AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS ON A MOUNTAIN CALLED CALVARY AND THEY WERE SETTLED FINALIZED AND CLOSED WITH OUT PREJUDICE.
IT IS AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS OF JESUS THAT LAID THE ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS, AND I DISCOVERED THE MAJESTY AND UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST AMONGST OTHER RELIGIOUS ICONS.

CHRIST PUT ON HUMANITY SO THAT WE MIGHT BE TRANSFORMED AND BE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD. NEVER IN HUMAN HISTORY HAS ANYONE MADE AND VALIDATED THE CLAIMS OF CHRIST. HE WAS TAUGHT OF GOD. IN HIS HUMANITY, HE SPOKE TO THE ELEMENTS AND THEY HEARD THE VOICE THAT CALLED THEM INTO EXISTENCE FROM THE BEGINNING, AND THEY OBEYED HIM.
GREAT MEN HAVE COME AND GONE YET, HE LIVES. DEATH AND THE GRAVE COULD NOT HOLD HIM.
HE LIVES TODAY WITH MORE STUDENTS AND VOLUNTEERS THAN ALL THE UNIVERSITIES AND ARMIES OF THE WORLD COMBINED. HE IS THE QUINT ESSENCE OF LIFE AND MOST OF ALL HE IS MY LORD AND MY SAVIOUR WHO IS FOR EVER TO BE LOVED AND PRAISED AMEN






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