The Kingdom 

I grew up as a religious person, went to church as much as I could  maybe three times in a week, recited my prayers,was baptized, sought the counsel of a priest in times of solace and truly enjoyed my alcohol; I was clueless of the real world, all I knew was that there was darkness and light; as long as I did not tread on anyone's toes, then all was well heaven was definitely beckoning.

I casually volunteered to retire at 30!!! Everyone was appalled inclusive of my boss he tried to pump some sense into my colleagues and I, but we were resolved to leave. We left.

Series of events took place thereafter, too numerous too mention and not very pleasant.

Alas, I was jolted to the reality of the real world a rude awakening; because of the series of events, I experienced a transformation of my life, to this day I ask myself what took me so long to find practical faith.This of course led me to Christ and I have always felt that had I known what real faith was all about then, my life would have taken a different trajectory. 

Having been raised in a traditional church, I was introduced to a Pentecostal church in which I stayed for a great length of time it taught me the application of quality faith and intelligence. Note then that Pentecostals were viewed as radicals. 

I later joined another Pentecostal church,with it came a great contrast.

I describe this new found home fiery, a lot of drama within the services and surely a lot to reflect on after the services, there is never a service short of drama and a lot to talk about thereafter. It is another world. The teaching has been very empowering indeed and an eye opener to why we individuals behave in certain ways. In short I have come to realize who I am and what God's purpose is for me. 

But behind all this I feel a sense of chagrin in the collective world of Christianity especially us Pentecostals; despite the teachings of love and truthfulness, we read and see factionalism, envy, jealousy, curse pronouncements, intolerance, threats and unfortunately unfounded accusations towards other brothers and sisters in faith. It's like a number of the Pentecostal movement are focused on acquiring more members, quantity is their consummation rather than espousing a quality faith. 

Few celebrate Ministry entrants, especially those from other countries, they are frowned upon as charlatans. Yet the bible is clear Mark 16:15, NIV"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. How we forget, I can also borrow from scripture Luke 4:24 NKJV "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country", so why not embrace these men and women who come to bless our land instead of  maligning them and their would be followers? Mathew 10:41 is very clear, whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person reward.

The bible is dynamic it can be applied to suit every situation one sees fit, one thing for sure I know it tells us not to judge Romans 2:1-3 NIV  "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things". Also Romans 14:2-6  states that one has faith to eat vegetable and another has faith to eat meat. 

There is no single church that will accommodate everyone in the land, for the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Let us embrace and celebrate all who are committed to genuinely winning souls for Christ, our fight is against one common enemy lucifer and his agents. 

Slander and competition has brought division amongst ourselves, in the process others have become disillusioned and lost their souls to the devil. 

A very dangerous trend is the vilification of people seemingly doing well they are branded as suspects or satanist, who's voices are you listening to, what happened to praying in the closet as opposed to calling for gatherings and meetings to echo what you heard from so and so, have you not heard of how information is distorted from it's initial source?

The church's role is to give hope and and bring peace, my God is not a God of confusion, I have no interest in listening to misinformation, dogma and the misalignment of facts against other brothers and sisters in faith let me be my own judge, don't let me choose between you and them, you might just drive me to them.

In conclusion as one great Man of God uttered recently "if someone is well above you, then they certainly are doing something right, GO! and learn from them".