To be sincere this Church issue needs to be thrashed out and please don’t ever feel guilty that you are thinking logically about a church when Jesus told us to believe without doubting.
Don’t feel antagonistic in nature because the same Jesus told us that in the last days they would be fake prophets and if he said so, it then means he expects that we should discern from fake prophets from the ones he truly sent and we can only do this through logical reasoning.
I will tell you a story on this particular issue at hand, in Nigeria despite the hardness and sufferings that ensues, a man with only N500 as his last penny thought it wise to visit church on a Sunday, as the service was going on, he was enjoying the service and suddenly it came to offering time and the man in question thinking himself to be a wise man said to himself I thank God I have broken this N500 into pieces so from the abundance of his heart, he dipped his hand into his pocket and reached for N200 but it was at that moment that the pastor said you have to dig deep into your pocket to merit a favour from God, hearing this the Man reached further into his pocket and grabbed an extra N100 bill.
Le me tell you this in all sincerity, the man finished that N500 there and then in the church because of the persuasive nature of the pastor and his only hope is to anticipate that God would double it back unto him, and this leaves me with a single question which is what happens when the supposed money doesn’t even come back at all, talk more about being doubled? Should the man take to crime?
Perhaps was it not the other day I read on a website of a pastor who patronised a slut and after getting the service, the slut told him plainly that she worships at his church and the pastor was full of plea, begging the supposed woman of little virtue not to expose his secret in public.
The church is the only place where you hear a thing that doesn’t naturally concur with your thinking and yet you accept it. E.g When you are slapped at the left cheek you are obliged to turn the right cheek for another slap. This makes the church the Opium of man. Like a man stabbing you with the right hand and pulling you back cheerfully with the left hand wearing a smile.
This should stand as a clarion call to those who goes to places of worship blindfolded without any will of their own to discern good from evil.
It cannot be overemphasized that the church brings more good than evil to man, but God works through men to touch us so we should be wise enough to know when its no longer God thats speaking through them.
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