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Religion Vs Christianity by femzysticks(m): 3:41am On Sep 18, 2016 |
SAW THIS POST ON FACEBOOK AND WAS REALLY INSPIRED The Problem With New Born Again Christians. I have been seeing a lot of posts centered on a former staunch feminist now Jesus Friend , First Lady Ibiene Williams. At first I laughed but after a while I began to get irritated. Facebook mobs just don't fucking know when to stop. They will lynch you, burn you and still gather your ashes to lynch and burn. That's why I hate clique gangs. No sense. Anyway, my own is that one important fact the crowd always misses. That one something that explains everything. Let me explain. Years ago, when I got Born again, I was seventeen or nineteen years old. I had just read a pamphlet I found in a yellow envelope from Papachi's oversea correspondences. The preacher's name was R. Shelton or something. The message I read was TURN OR BURN. Mehn, that man put the literal fear of God in me. I sharply turned. I turned from writing rap lyrics, because hip-hop is sin. I turned from watching Jean Claude Van Damme and any akshun feem on TV. I turned from everything turntable. Because sin, sin, sin. Because I no wan burn. Now, here is the problem. Born again Christians are spiritual babies. And what they are fed matters a lot. And who is feeding them is also important. I was being fed by over religious folks. By staunch holiness preachers. I was being fed by people who place so much emphasis on outward show of holiness. And have I mentioned I grew up in a Deeper Life home? Today, if you ask me my biggest regret, I will tell you simply it is gathering over 150 Hip Hop songs I wrote and burning them. Because I was too young a Christian to understand that I was doing the will of man not the word of God. My writing were full of my frustrations as a teen. About how everything were falling apart. About how lost I felt. And I was led to burn them because a religious person said hip-hop is sin. Till today, I have never forgiven that church. What I am saying here is whatever a new christian convert says is not HER words. She is just repeating a mantra. She's just reciting the belief of the church/group she is affiliated to. Until they study the word for themselves, grow a spiritual backbone, grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus, they will keep goofing. Jesus wouldn't have supported me burning the fruits of my creativity. He would perhaps want me to use my talents to glorify him but he wouldn't say 'hey, burn these pages and pages of songs, grab your Bible and go win me a soul.' Christians need to understand they can't be misfeeding the Shepherd's lambs. You can't be raising warriors from birth. You are to nurture them first. Help them grow. Help them find strength in the grace that's in Christ Jesus not to just thrust a Bible into their hands and send them to war. It is wrong. You are maltreating the lambs. You are sending them to be mauled by wolves and the cold. You are going to frustrate and eventually lose them back to the world. Learn to tend to what Christ has entrusted into your hands. Not everytime holy violence and spiritual gragra. Teach them love. Someone who is taught love won't oppose some movement aimed to keep women from being suppressed, exploited and victimized. Again, another problem, if your idea of the Goodnews is to tell people they will go to hell if they don't accept Jesus, you are going to be raising people led by fear instead if love for God. The Bible says it is the goodness of God that leads people to repentance not the fear of God. The fear of God got me but it wasn't strong enough to keep me saved. The same way the fear of cancer will not stop anyone from smoking. What did Jesus come to do? Did he come to condemn people or show them the Father's love? Did he come to scold people for being too fat before healing them of their heart diseases? Did he come to blame mothers for their carelessness before praying for their kids? You need to stop this brand of Christianity you are practicing. You are not working for Him but against him. https://web.facebook.com/hymardavid/posts/1178105705561595 STOP PRACTICING RELIGION #SELAH 2 Likes |
Re: Religion Vs Christianity by donvicky2007: 5:59am On Sep 18, 2016 |
Hmm mm Nice write up. But I think religion and Christianity are two different things. |
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