Sunday evening Services! Two.

Ekklesia is not like the Kosmon?

What is being lost in not having an Sunday evening service is that of fellowship of believers ahead of the working week! The world is very hostile most of the time to believers, we are attacked for what disagrees with their standards and ours are dismissed as archaic?

A two hour slot of praise, prayer and preaching with an after fellowship of just meeting and talking with folk is the varied ways of helping and leading others to God! When you have worked prior to going into ministry, you are more likely to see the needs in particular loneliness and despair!

God came to save sinners and the Ekklesia is a place for believers to meet together and be built up, its not a club or some unneeded tradition of religious observance! We need to help those who are seeking God and keep our flocks well watered and fed?

Acts 2:42, Romans 16:8, Philippians 2:1, Philemon 1:6, 1 John 1:6.

Sunday Evening Services! One.

No longer Popular?

Many fellowships today only have Sunday morning services and have ended their evenings for the pleasures of the television and other?

They see no value in pressuring their congregations into attending Church twice on a Sunday! But one has to say I think this is wrong, the opportunity to share the Gospel is slowly being eradicated and we will have to give God an account for missed souls?

Many in ministry have it easy, compared to normal 9-5 work and so it seems another chip off the block can be sacrificed? Many people today work in the gig economy and would like to break bread before or after work, to be fed spiritually and have the opportunity to bring a friend?

Isaiah 40:11, 56:11, Ezekiel 34:2, Luke 2:20, 1 Peter 5:2.

Transgender Issues?

Testosterone!

What makes men and woman different is now the challenge that woman have to face with men who think or feel feminine and want to share the toilet, and also the sports field despite having more energy than females?

We are living in disturbing times, wither we call it apostate or something other it is not good for believers to accept sin and excuse it as something other?

In times past the Church and its institutions did cover up serious financial fraud and use other methods to hide its dishonesty!

But now we are living in an age were many people are vulnerable to sexual assault and rape and latest police figures suggest that much crime is either not being recorded or reported!

If we claim a faith in Jesus then we only have the Bible to live by and the conditions set by God, He who will have the last word at the end to the accountability for sin and our failures! We cannot excuse ourselves as many do today, believing that ‘Once they are saved they can live as they wish?

Romans 1:18-28, Psalm 81:12, Hosea 4:18, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, Revelation 22:14-15.

Adultery and Divorce!

A plague in modern Society?

Marriage today has become cheap, being not much more than a fad something to be experienced and then broken up and put aside?

No longer is marriage between and man and a woman, but now it is same sex running contrary to the teachings of the Holy Bible because its based on selfish motives and lust over that of love and forgiveness!

Christians are failing to speak out or to condemn evil practices in our nations and society! The fear of man now predominates the Church were ever it has got a foothold?

There does not seem to be a separation line between faith and the world, something to show that when we are born-again we have become a changed people? We have to live in the world, but the world must not live in us influencing us back to what we were before!

Believers need to show couples getting married in Churches the seriousness of what they are doing, the vows and promises they are making to God first and then to each other! The need to forgive when each will fail, to know that we have to forgive, since He first forgave us!

That same sex marriage is wrong and is an abomination to God, love here is not the question but rather lust which is evil and leads to many other sexual sins!

Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Psalm 81:12, Matthew 5:28, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:15, 18, Romans 1:27, 7:3, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 7:2-3, 11:12, Ephesians 4:32, Colossian 3:13, Hebrews 13:4, 2 Peter 2:10.

Bearing the Name!

CHRISTIAN?

Are you afraid of the lions?

What a strange question to ask a believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus, who is our Lord and saviour?

Our redeemer and the one who is returning one day to gather us His Ekklesia to be taken up with Him!

Yesterday the media reported that two-hundred and fifty Christians are killed world wide each month, probably most of them are real believers over that of carrying the name tag that other religions have?

Today in our ever secular society believers are being attacked for believing the teachings of the Bible, which oppose many issues, moral, sexual and our integrity in business, leadership or management!

But many others in leadership are refusing to make a stand for the truth, because they fear these new lions!

Acts 5:41, 11:26, 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16.

By faith Alone?

The conundrum of the Reformation!

Martin Luther added in the word alone to the translation of the Holy Bible to German and English to emphasise his point in relation that only faith saves!

But the original Greek manuscripts never had the word alone, since faith was already known as the key to knowing God!

The problems for Martin Luther like or loath him was he had ninety six issues with the Roman Catholic Church, which he questioned and then had no choice but to break away from?

Faith in itself encompasses much, but the Latin translation from the Greek may have deliberately blocked this truth off, so that made the Pope infallible as the leader of the Universal Church.

Today occasionally if not commonly many new words are being added to the Bible to get a clearer meaning, one must be careful to not go beyond what is being said? Because some of this can be used to change the meanings and justify sin, since we remain fickle in our nature!

Romans 1:17, 3:28, 5:1-2, Galatians 3:11, Philippians 3:9, Hebrews 11:6-7.

Philip and the Ethiopian! Two.

Simple Faith, Sometimes?

There are many who claim that even a child can come to know God with simple faith, but this is not possible here because something is missing?

Bias is a terrible sin, we cannot know another’s heart that is the realm of the Almighty? But there are too many today who rush to pass judgement on others because they fail not in the same way as the Judges!

There is a place to test the believer to see if they are really walking with Jesus as they claim and if not it is our responsibility to help them?

We do need to examine ourselves in relation to both Anti-Semitism and racism in the Ekklesia, along with many other issues such as disability! We need also to be ready to encourage and help each other with our issues?

Matthew 7:1-6, Acts 8:37-39, James 2:1-13.

Public blindness to Suffering? Part-Two.

Immigration Issues!

Many people do not want foreigners in their lands anymore!

But the question is who is going to do the dirty work?

Most of our young people today want to be designers, do photo-journalism, work in an office, banking? But none want to wash floors, clean toilets or be involved in cleaning old peoples bottoms, they would rather stay on the social benefits?

We cannot do without foreign people, nursing, cafés, restaurants, hotels need people who can do the jobs within a required time slot! Farmers need Eastern-Europeans to pick fruit and vegetables and Asians to work in the curry houses!

Ruth 2:10, Matthew 17:25, 1 Corinthians 14:21, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Timothy 5:10.

Public blindness to Suffering. One.

The need to cut foreign Aid?

This is the common request today from the British public, but it is also the same in the U.S. and many other places! What many ordinary folk fail to realise or understand is that the British Empire that once was still has many links to its former colonies, who are British citizens?

But it is well known for some years now that most people are both blind, cold and indifferent to the suffering and homelessness around them and sadly are the so many self-opinionated Christians who as the Bible warns us don’t care anymore?

Despite there being much Christian outlook, it has come under government control and so spaces are now limited to do the right work that once was done by Christian charity?

Food banks help, homeless hostels are too few, wealth and donations are not enough, action has to be taken to help those in need, while also seeking to win them to Jesus, so that their new attitude will give all hope?

Isaiah 63:9. 1 Thessalonians 2:7, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 5:2.

Prostitution. Part-One.

Sex for Hire!

This is a subject that many who profess a faith in God feel uncomfortable with, either from disgust, guilt or that they were involved or are practising in secret?

The world calls it the oldest profession, but we only here of it first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 38:15! One does not know if it existed before the flood or not, but it may have but is not mentioned since the human heart was evil and open to constant violence!

The Holy bible has much to say about the matter in relation to both men and woman, and today with our society the male aspect of it is much more prevalent than that traditionally of young girls and woman!

Exploitation of emotional breakdown or being lead astray through false love is what is the main cause of people getting involved! Others do it for quick money, while others do it out of their own lust for sex, that is never enjoyed or fulfilled?

Deuteronomy 23:17, Proverbs 6:26, Isaiah 9:4, Micah 6:12, Romans 3:13, 1 Corinthians 6:15-16.