Believe Right!

Understand that the best fake products are the ones which most mimic the original. Many among us practice something that would shock the early apostles, just as Paul was so shocked at the practice of the Galatians that he referred to them as being under a spell. Some non-Christians have the misfortune of engaging with churchgoers whose version of Christianity is a severely watered-down version of Judaism plus a smattering of “in Jesus’ name” attached to every prayer point, and so many non-believers have that notion of Christians being a bunch of finger-wagging, hypocritical bigots who are against even people breathing through their mouth and who try to shove obeying the Ten Commandments and other laws down everybody’s throat but their own— —quite the opposite of what Christ did when He walked the earth as man; and what He still does. Check out the ways of Christ in the gospels. Religious folk who thought they were being godly or good (like God) by their “free moral agency”hated and rej...

  To show us that the best person to shepherd His sheep is the one who has been through a similar experience as Peter whose thoughts did the “ exalts itself against the knowledge of God”  thing that we often ascribe only to demons or evil spirits on the matter of his then- upcoming denials. Only the one who sees the utter weakness of human effort to produce even an atom of good (be like God) and trusts utterly in Christ as his Righteousness, Strength and Saviour from sins, only that one can feed Christ’s lambs and shepherd His flock, yet not him but Christ in Him. Remember what Christ told Peter before Peter’s denials- "31  And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” 33 But he said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You, both to prison and to death.”" Talk about telling your Maker that He must b...