It is so easy to cross the line from liberty into pride, individualism and lawlessness. Such is the scenario plaguing our Christian faith these days. This has been in existence for centuries and it has been taking different diabolical forms of expression since.
Out of diverse forms of the vain imagination of God, several atrocious acts have been and still being committed in the name of God. It's such a wonder how many images of God people have crafted in their minds, a God that only they themselves know, in whose personality and authority they commit all sort of reckless acts.
We can see this in the crusades of the 19th century where "Christians" raped, maimed and stole all in the name of Christ. They perpetrated evil acts without any form of retribution.
This issue brings to memory the funny narration in the popular film I saw when I was a kid. It is Title: Desperado. There is a man in the film who will go for confession after every killing of people he carries out. This scenario is even better compared to what happens today. Nowadays Christians won't even bother about confession, they will just automatically input it into the account of limitless grace and shift the gear of sin to the next level.

The God whom anyone serves and in whom identity is found can only be portrayed by actions, therefore, rendering any form of rhetoric or knowledge without an actual tangible expression, when it matters most, is deception.

I also wonder if the true God we know will support and protect His children in their state of obvious impunity and false confidence.
Let's now go into scriptures in 2 Corinthians 6:3, the Bible says that we should not give chance for offense that the ministry be not blamed. It's clear that what ever character flaw that affects ministry is something of concern.

In fact our life conduct is the ministry, that is, how we respond to situations will determine what people will see about the ministry. We must protect it carefully.

It's funny that we don't realize how the church has been rapidly churning out atheists in recent times, all because of the gross disappointments in the Christian community and endemic dearth of a living conscience expressed in the church. We determine if people will come into the Kingdom by our dealings first with the brethren and secondly, in the world. If we can't sort that out then we should just keep our imagination of God to ourselves and let people find their alternatives.
Another scripture in Romans 14:13 says that we should be careful not to cause a stumbling block in the way of our brothers. We should be careful how we express the liberty in Christ and not behave in such a way that another person will be disappointed or have a cause to pick up an offense. The primary goal is to try all to make sure that the other brother's hope and his Christian dream is not dashed. Let's own up when we have failed and take responsibility without trying to absolve ourselves from an obvious transgression.

It's plain psychosis if we won't repent of an evil but find ways to justify the act in the name of religion or spirituality.

We will be living by ourselves and in our own world of illusion if we see life this way .
If there is a law in the land, obey, if there is a principle in a church, just follow it, if there is an instruction from above, why don't we just abide by it?

Christianity is a big responsibility.

You can't be represent one thing and live another. Let's step out of our unruly world and stop thinking the God we imagined, which was borne out of our ideas, has got our backs. A lot of us must step down from our prideful horse.
I would like to ask, whose cause are you fighting? God's cause or your own.

Fighting for our own self interest in the name of divinity is a sham and a scam.

That true God cannot be party to that. You can't do what you feel or what you like or believe what you want.

Doing this is serving a another god called INDIVIDUALISM, a subtle form of idolatry that has become a common plague.

Leaders are there to manage and regulate societies in order that our lives might not be thrown out of course and into the miseries and the dark places of heretic manipulations. Even this leaders must not be heretic. The tendency to be is higher for them.
The last scripture in this article says we should be careful not to make those that are weak stumble by the reason of our liberty -1 Corinthians 8:9. No matter how spiritual one might claim to be, no matter the amount of scripture known, prayer prayed or fasting done, the fact still remains that a believer must still live in this world for a while. He is a picture that is been watched by the world.

This liberty in Christ doesn't make him infallible or always right.

He must own up when he is wrong. God is a just God, he is not a respecter of people and he will judge accordingly no matter how affiliated someone feels he is to him. It's a big deal that out of experience, believers will like to do business with an unbeliever rather than their fellow believer because of nasty tastes that have surrounded such dealings. These experiences have ultimately caused the demise of trust and loyalty among the brethren.

It is more painful to be hurt with impunity by a close brother than to be hurt by a stranger.

This is an issue that we often want to hide rather than sort. The company of the brethren should be a fortress not an ambush. Christianity will only remain strong by the inter-subjective beliefs and experiences shared in unity. If we continue to believe different things under Christ, then we put the experience of the Christian life in grave danger.
Spirituality is walking circumspectly,
Spirituality is fulfilling all righteousness,
Spirituality is owning up to a fault and pro-actively correcting it.

Spirituality is not IMPUNITY.

Righteousness is not only what you are but mostly what you do.


Written by Peter Ademiju

Sir what I think we need to end is individual owning a church. You can’t just own a church.

True sir. There must be some regulations to curb the issues of victimization and atrocities caused.

Day2logic:
Sir what I think we need to end is individual owning a church. You can’t just own a church.

Until people (Christians especially) begin to see the true meaning of the word " CHURCH" as Christ's selected people (mystical body), Christianity will continue to be abused