AntiChristian: Love your neighbor as yourself self no be here o!
CAN wet dey force Muslims girls to remove their Hijab in Public schools. And Bishop Oyedepo was calling the consuming fire of God to come decide the matter. The fire he never called on bandits, kidnappers and Boko haram.
Christians will give you anything for as long as you can convert to christianity. Visiting the sick is an avenue to make fishes of men to christianity.
How do you love your enemies and pray for them? Christians are the major cursers of Buhari and Nigeria as if they are their enemy. Can you pray for Boko haram too?
nairalandsers hate each other, always giving each other insults
I like the write up the guy must be a good Christian.The most difficult part of Christianity which is love of ones Enemy,any Christian who does this is a living saint.But how I wish Christians and Muslims can preach and pray more against sexual immortality. I know that the Catholic church in America is doing something to this regards with its fight against abortion and homosexuality.Sexual immorality is the number one moral issue in the world today the sad aspect is that a lot of people have giving up hope on thier faith because of this.And as a matter of fact since its a moral issue its only religious institutions that can save the world from an emerging crisis.
blazepascal: 1. We keep forgetting the second commandment is a command.
We want our religion to be private, just “me and the Lord.”
Jesus refuses to play that game. After being asked to identify the “greatest” command, He said, “And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39). We must note that this is a command, not an option, an opinion, a wish, a Facebook “like,” or a good idea. To love one’s neighbor strongly is a key component of the kind of witness Jesus envisioned His people extending to the world.
So, why don’t we obey it? Answer: We have found it inconvenient, difficult, and demanding. When we love people – truly care for them to the point that they know it – they might need us, and that would interfere with our schedule. It’s much easier to love the lovely, to care for the appreciative, to give to the deserving, and to reach out to those who need little or nothing.
2. We keep forgetting two things about His command to feed the hungry, clothe the needy, visit the sick, in Matthew 25.
First, we forget that this is a command and is not optional… something the Lord hopes we might find time to do along life’s way while attending to more important matters. Jesus honestly expects His people to do this. I’m happy to report many churches are taking this seriously and are involving their people in strong ministries to the down and out, the voiceless, and the forgotten.
Secondly, when we do these things “unto the least of these my brethren,” Hetakes it personally. We are to do good to everyone, but brothers and sisters in Christ have first dibs on our assistance. Paul said, “As we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).
A side note: Nowhere–underscore that–nowhere, does the Bible tell the church to take care of all the poor of the world. I hear people say that the government would not have to get involved in welfare if the church did its duty (Imagine Jesus telling the handful of disciples in Jerusalem they were to go into all the world and meet the physical needs of the billions. He did not do this. Let us give thanks).
3. We forget that loving people and loving the Lord is all about action, not emotion.
When our Lord told us to “love your enemies” in Luke 6:27, He immediately explained that what He’s calling for is action. We are to do good, bless, pray, give, etc. Throughout the Upper Room discourse (John 13-16), Jesus emphasized that whoever loves Him keeps His commands. Words are important, of course, and emotions can be, too. But nothing packs more punch than actions – the works we do. The Lord said, “Whoever hears these words of mine and does them is like one who builds his house on a rock” (Matthew 7:24).
4. We keep forgetting the Lord told us to expect to be treated badly.
“An hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.” (John 16:2)
God’s people keep expecting to be loved and appreciated by those to whom we minister and then end up getting blindsided by their hostility. We complain, “Why are they treating us this way? All I was doing was helping and blessing. Where is God? What’s wrong?”
Answer: Nothing is wrong. You are right on schedule.
We have forgotten Matthew 10:16-22and similar passages where Jesus warned we would be hated “by all for (His) name’s sake.”
5. We keep forgetting He told us to love our enemies.
This point follows on the heels of the previous ones for good reason. They treat us badly and how are we to react? We are to love them, not nurse our anger, bear grudges or protect our resentment as though we now possess a get-out-of-jail-free card entitling us to despise them.
Anyone who spends even a few minutes on Facebook reading the posts of professing Christians will come away horrified at the hostility some of the Lord’s people express toward other religions, worldly pleasure-lovers, and misguided politicians. Call their hand on it and they will answer, “I do love the sinner but hate the sin.” But everything about their behavior and all their words speaks of hatred and malice, not Christlike behavior. On the cross, dying, even as the tormentors continued their evil work, our Lord said, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.”
Let’s get this right, Christian. So much depends on our loving the enemies
6. We forget we are commissioned to throw parties for the undeserving and undesirable.
“When you give a reception (banquet), invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” (Luke 14:13-14)
These people have our Lord’s heart. They are special to Him. “He who gives to the poor lends to the Lord,” Scripture says in Proverbs. The closer we are to Jesus, the more such ones will matter to us, too. If you haven’t read Tony Campolo’s The Kingdom of God is a Party, then get it and dive in. This man has a way of hitting us between the eyes with the 2 x 4 of God’s love. In my humble opinion, as the saying goes, Tony overstates his case at times, but still, he’s so worth reading.
7. We conveniently forget that “Jesus saves.”
We know He forgives, and we love to sing about it. What we have pushed to the back burner however is the fact that He came to save sinners (see Matthew 1:21 and Luke 2:11 for starters) and that is to be our business too.
We who devote ourselves to feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and so forth, sometimes think we have fulfilled our assignment. Not even close. We fail people when we give them bread but keep silent about the Savior who can meet their true needs, fill their deepest hungers, and heal their greatest hurts.
8. We forget that with Jesus, change is the norm
Luke 5:36-39 presents new wineskins as the Lord’s pattern for His disciples: strong, flexible, faithful, growing, etc.
We do love our status quo. In science, they call it “inertia,” the tendency of a body to go on doing whatever it’s doing at the moment – moving or remaining stationary. However, the Lord does not play this game with us. He is forever calling us out of our comfort zones, abandoning our customary methods, and finding new ways of seeing and doing and achieving. No one unwilling to constantly change and adapt can follow Jesus Christ for long.
9. We keep forgetting that the object is not to keep rules.
The object is obedience to the Lord, not slavishly keeping the rules. Many of the Lord’s well-intentioned children miss the fine line between those two.
“The letter of the law kills, the Spirit gives life.” (2 Corinthians 3:6)
Anyone who requires a demonstration of that proof needs only to visit a legalistic church for a few weeks. They will be heartbroken over the way rule-keepers “omit the weightier matters” in order to “tithe mint and dill and cumin” (Matthew 23:23).
While preaching in a church located near a sizeable Amish community, the pastor had stories about the legalistic ways of his neighbors. One man had disinherited his adult sons for buying a car. And yet, he would hire a car and driver to transport him to Nashville where he would board planes to take him all over the world.
To the legalists who were twisting God’s laws into shackles for their neighbors, our Lord said, “Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27).
I suspect every church in the land has members (and often leaders) who need constant reminders of this.
10. We keep forgetting to read all the Word and not take a verse or two out of context.
“Here a verse, there a verse.” I stand before you today to confess that I’m as guilty as anyone I know. We do love our verses, don’t we? They fit so conveniently on bumper stickers and in our tweets.
How many people know and love Jeremiah 29:11 (“I know the plans I have for you….”) and claim it as their own but have no clue what’s going on in that chapter and to whom it was given.
Here’s another: In Luke 9:3, Jesus said to the disciples, “Take nothing for your journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.” Clear enough, right? Wrong.
I heard a distinguished Christian columnist quoting Luke 9:3 as the basis of God expecting poverty from Christian workers. However, he failed to point out that our Lord reversed that command in Luke 22:35-36.
It’s an easy mistake to make unless you are a diligent student of the Word.
All of which proves once again that His thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are His ways our ways (Isaiah 55:.
We do like our religion easy and palatable, comfortable and undemanding with instant rewards and no room for outsiders unless they quickly become like us.
AntiChristian: Love your neighbor as yourself self no be here o!
CAN wet dey force Muslims girls to remove their Hijab in Public schools. And Bishop Oyedepo was calling the consuming fire of God to come decide the matter. The fire he never called on bandits, kidnappers and Boko haram.
Christians will give you anything for as long as you can convert to christianity. Visiting the sick is an avenue to make fishes of men to christianity.
How do you love your enemies and pray for them? Christians are the major cursers of Buhari and Nigeria as if they are their enemy. Can you pray for Boko haram too?
AntiChristian: Love your neighbor as yourself self no be here o!
CAN wet dey force Muslims girls to remove their Hijab in Public schools. And Bishop Oyedepo was calling the consuming fire of God to come decide the matter. The fire he never called on bandits, kidnappers and Boko haram.
Christians will give you anything for as long as you can convert to christianity. Visiting the sick is an avenue to make fishes of men to christianity.
How do you love your enemies and pray for them? Christians are the major cursers of Buhari and Nigeria as if they are their enemy. Can you pray for Boko haram too?
Are your people showing love by bombing and kidnapping of people? Initially when the Boko Haram was bombing churches, your northern brethren were rejoicing killing 'infidels' unitil the table turned. How many has Oyedepo fire consumed? Many christians have been felled by the wicked hands of your loveless brothers in Islam.
Truefaith: The most important thing the Lord Jesus Christ warned people against, and which most have forgotten, is to beware of false prophets and false teachers
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Jesus will say not you? Why don't wait for that day?
oloyedewaris: I am not supposed to post this here, but pardon me i was tempted to do this
See how Christians threads are peaceful, nobody is diverting away from the topic, everything seemed focused
Come to Muslims thread on Friday and see how Christians will flood the whole place diverting away from the topic of discussion, insulting, abusing and uttering discriminative words to fellow Muslims even in their thread, yet Muslims never pass their boundary
Now nairaland mods create a preventive measure that will stop all these discrimination on this forum by imposing an oath meant for Muslims before commenting. They now start shouting Hypocrisy, if you'd not been disturbing their threads will they try to restrict you.
Please tell me who is the real hypocrite
Why is almost everything about Islam abhor right to and the right not to?
Remove the compulsory affirmation from Islamic related topics, and the problem is half solved.
This, I think, changes the motives of people even before reading and commenting.
AntiChristian: Love your neighbor as yourself self no be here o!
CAN wet dey force Muslims girls to remove their Hijab in Public schools. And Bishop Oyedepo was calling the consuming fire of God to come decide the matter. The fire he never called on bandits, kidnappers and Boko haram.
Christians will give you anything for as long as you can convert to christianity. Visiting the sick is an avenue to make fishes of men to christianity.
How do you love your enemies and pray for them? Christians are the major cursers of Buhari and Nigeria as if they are their enemy. Can you pray for Boko haram too?
Jesus also cained and chased out people turning the temple of God to a place of buying and selling ,so Christians will not be wrong if the chase out those insisting on turning Christians schools into a place of wearing Islamic hijap.
They have not forgotten that Jesus was claimed to have said that. They ignore it because they realise that his promise was false. He never gives them what they pray for, ever.
Kindly note that we do not pray to Jesus, but to God in Jesus name.
Again do not be quick to assume that every christian has faith like a grain of mustard seed.
obyrich: Seun why will you allow an Islamic fundamentalist to be running criticisms on Christian threads while Christians are debarred from commenting on Muslim threads. Is this fair?
is this really a pointer to the fact that Nigeria is an Islamic country??
AntiChristian: Love your neighbor as yourself self no be here o!
CAN wet dey force Muslims girls to remove their Hijab in Public schools. And Bishop Oyedepo was calling the consuming fire of God to come decide the matter. The fire he never called on bandits, kidnappers and Boko haram.
Christians will give you anything for as long as you can convert to christianity. Visiting the sick is an avenue to make fishes of men to christianity.
How do you love your enemies and pray for them? Christians are the major cursers of Buhari and Nigeria as if they are their enemy. Can you pray for Boko haram too?
Oga, Jesus also chased away those trading in the Temple. The place was dedicated to God, not to demons. So, if you want to hijab, go to your mosques and Islamic schools which are dedicated to allah. The christian schools are dedicated to God in the name of Jesus. Away with your taqqya. We know how the enemy works, that is also why Jesus told us to be gentle as a dove, but be wise as the serpent. The Bible also enjoined Christians thus Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? - 2 Corinthians 6:14
hopefulLandlord: Christians also keep forgetting Jesus said they'd ask anything in his name and it would be done as long as they have faith even if the faith is as small as a mustard seed. Christians forget this when it comes to amputees as they'd rather give amputees indomie than ask Jesus to give them new limbs. A
Friend, more grace to your inspiring & uncommon faith!
Yes, I agree. Consuming fire would have consumed all those who uses Hijab.
CAN would have removed the Hijab from all female Muslims.
That one is not terrorism but persecution!
How do you persecute the persecutor? How many Muslim schools are in Nigeria? Muslims want to reap where they didn't sow. Soon they will be asking FG to take possession of church owned Tertiary institutions or appoint Muslim VCs. All this while, churches were building primary and secondary schools. They were busy doing nothing. They are claiming right. You could imagine Muslim Community complaining about selling pork in Canada! In Nigeria, how many higher institutions belong to Muslims? The only blessing we derive from Muslims are killings, violence, and persecution. One, one man - organisation MURIC with septic mouth, who may have benefited from missionary school will vomiting ear - deafening nonsense when it concerns church issues like this contributor
blazepascal: 1. We keep forgetting the second commandment is a command.
We want our religion to be private, just “me and the Lord.”
Jesus refuses to play that game. After being asked to identify the “greatest” command, He said, “And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39). We must note that this is a command, not an option, an opinion, a wish, a Facebook “like,” or a good idea. To love one’s neighbor strongly is a key component of the kind of witness Jesus envisioned His people extending to the world.
So, why don’t we obey it? Answer: We have found it inconvenient, difficult, and demanding. When we love people – truly care for them to the point that they know it – they might need us, and that would interfere with our schedule. It’s much easier to love the lovely, to care for the appreciative, to give to the deserving, and to reach out to those who need little or nothing.
2. We keep forgetting two things about His command to feed the hungry, clothe the needy, visit the sick, in Matthew 25.
First, we forget that this is a command and is not optional… something the Lord hopes we might find time to do along life’s way while attending to more important matters. Jesus honestly expects His people to do this. I’m happy to report many churches are taking this seriously and are involving their people in strong ministries to the down and out, the voiceless, and the forgotten.
Secondly, when we do these things “unto the least of these my brethren,” Hetakes it personally. We are to do good to everyone, but brothers and sisters in Christ have first dibs on our assistance. Paul said, “As we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).
A side note: Nowhere–underscore that–nowhere, does the Bible tell the church to take care of all the poor of the world. I hear people say that the government would not have to get involved in welfare if the church did its duty (Imagine Jesus telling the handful of disciples in Jerusalem they were to go into all the world and meet the physical needs of the billions. He did not do this. Let us give thanks).
3. We forget that loving people and loving the Lord is all about action, not emotion.
When our Lord told us to “love your enemies” in Luke 6:27, He immediately explained that what He’s calling for is action. We are to do good, bless, pray, give, etc. Throughout the Upper Room discourse (John 13-16), Jesus emphasized that whoever loves Him keeps His commands. Words are important, of course, and emotions can be, too. But nothing packs more punch than actions – the works we do. The Lord said, “Whoever hears these words of mine and does them is like one who builds his house on a rock” (Matthew 7:24).
4. We keep forgetting the Lord told us to expect to be treated badly.
“An hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.” (John 16:2)
God’s people keep expecting to be loved and appreciated by those to whom we minister and then end up getting blindsided by their hostility. We complain, “Why are they treating us this way? All I was doing was helping and blessing. Where is God? What’s wrong?”
Answer: Nothing is wrong. You are right on schedule.
We have forgotten Matthew 10:16-22and similar passages where Jesus warned we would be hated “by all for (His) name’s sake.”
5. We keep forgetting He told us to love our enemies.
This point follows on the heels of the previous ones for good reason. They treat us badly and how are we to react? We are to love them, not nurse our anger, bear grudges or protect our resentment as though we now possess a get-out-of-jail-free card entitling us to despise them.
Anyone who spends even a few minutes on Facebook reading the posts of professing Christians will come away horrified at the hostility some of the Lord’s people express toward other religions, worldly pleasure-lovers, and misguided politicians. Call their hand on it and they will answer, “I do love the sinner but hate the sin.” But everything about their behavior and all their words speaks of hatred and malice, not Christlike behavior. On the cross, dying, even as the tormentors continued their evil work, our Lord said, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.”
Let’s get this right, Christian. So much depends on our loving the enemies
6. We forget we are commissioned to throw parties for the undeserving and undesirable.
“When you give a reception (banquet), invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” (Luke 14:13-14)
These people have our Lord’s heart. They are special to Him. “He who gives to the poor lends to the Lord,” Scripture says in Proverbs. The closer we are to Jesus, the more such ones will matter to us, too. If you haven’t read Tony Campolo’s The Kingdom of God is a Party, then get it and dive in. This man has a way of hitting us between the eyes with the 2 x 4 of God’s love. In my humble opinion, as the saying goes, Tony overstates his case at times, but still, he’s so worth reading.
7. We conveniently forget that “Jesus saves.”
We know He forgives, and we love to sing about it. What we have pushed to the back burner however is the fact that He came to save sinners (see Matthew 1:21 and Luke 2:11 for starters) and that is to be our business too.
We who devote ourselves to feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and so forth, sometimes think we have fulfilled our assignment. Not even close. We fail people when we give them bread but keep silent about the Savior who can meet their true needs, fill their deepest hungers, and heal their greatest hurts.
8. We forget that with Jesus, change is the norm
Luke 5:36-39 presents new wineskins as the Lord’s pattern for His disciples: strong, flexible, faithful, growing, etc.
We do love our status quo. In science, they call it “inertia,” the tendency of a body to go on doing whatever it’s doing at the moment – moving or remaining stationary. However, the Lord does not play this game with us. He is forever calling us out of our comfort zones, abandoning our customary methods, and finding new ways of seeing and doing and achieving. No one unwilling to constantly change and adapt can follow Jesus Christ for long.
9. We keep forgetting that the object is not to keep rules.
The object is obedience to the Lord, not slavishly keeping the rules. Many of the Lord’s well-intentioned children miss the fine line between those two.
“The letter of the law kills, the Spirit gives life.” (2 Corinthians 3:6)
Anyone who requires a demonstration of that proof needs only to visit a legalistic church for a few weeks. They will be heartbroken over the way rule-keepers “omit the weightier matters” in order to “tithe mint and dill and cumin” (Matthew 23:23).
While preaching in a church located near a sizeable Amish community, the pastor had stories about the legalistic ways of his neighbors. One man had disinherited his adult sons for buying a car. And yet, he would hire a car and driver to transport him to Nashville where he would board planes to take him all over the world.
To the legalists who were twisting God’s laws into shackles for their neighbors, our Lord said, “Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27).
I suspect every church in the land has members (and often leaders) who need constant reminders of this.
10. We keep forgetting to read all the Word and not take a verse or two out of context.
“Here a verse, there a verse.” I stand before you today to confess that I’m as guilty as anyone I know. We do love our verses, don’t we? They fit so conveniently on bumper stickers and in our tweets.
How many people know and love Jeremiah 29:11 (“I know the plans I have for you….”) and claim it as their own but have no clue what’s going on in that chapter and to whom it was given.
Here’s another: In Luke 9:3, Jesus said to the disciples, “Take nothing for your journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.” Clear enough, right? Wrong.
I heard a distinguished Christian columnist quoting Luke 9:3 as the basis of God expecting poverty from Christian workers. However, he failed to point out that our Lord reversed that command in Luke 22:35-36.
It’s an easy mistake to make unless you are a diligent student of the Word.
All of which proves once again that His thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are His ways our ways (Isaiah 55:.
We do like our religion easy and palatable, comfortable and undemanding with instant rewards and no room for outsiders unless they quickly become like us.
.