I was checking a tube video in youtube. There I saw a video about some comments on North America’s Mega Church Pastors and worldwide known Christians Evangelists. I saw the comments like they are serving not God, but power of darkness (I don’t want to use words like demons or satan directly here). It is for sure that when some one gets success in any area, alone with his supporter there comes many criticizers too. But it is sad to know that the people with the spirit of Sadducees and Pharisees criticizing the people of God who are leading Millions into Christ each year around the world.
As a minister of Gospel from third world, I see two main problems in Western Christianity. First, the Ministers here are very much professional and many of them have applied for wrong job as Religious leaders, and second Religious Denominations are running after securing their tithes and offerings by pleasing the members who are attending their religion for generations. Even in the midst of such look warmness, God has raised some ministers who can boldly stand and proclaim “thus says the Lord”. And, the people who claim themselves Christians are running after them like Religious leaders were running after Jesus during his earthly ministries.
It is very easy to find fault of some one, even of a minister of the gospel, because we all are human being. But does it really meet our spiritual need in the spiritual vacuum that Christless mainline western Christianity is creating? As for my personal understanding definitely not, because the vacuum that Christless Christianity has created, only Christ can fill it. And, rather then trying to understanding Christ, it is surely not wise decision to create Godless godliness in our heart.
I know one UK based scholar who claim that Pastor of a Mega Church in East has build one of the largest Churches of world on False Healing. But I have seen there many people who are turning back to God after roaming around the philosophy and Dharma of East and knowing the fact that there is no salvation anywhere else then Jesus the son of God. Unfortunately people from such a Scholar’s own nation (some times even from his own Church) are rejecting Christian religion and roaming around the temples and mosques of East in order to find salvation and peace in their mind.
The point here is the misunderstanding of many Pastors and Ministers that there is no salvation anywhere then Christianity. In fact there is no salvation in any religion, and not even in Christian Religion. Jonah the godly prophet was in same dilemma, he was thinking that there is salvation in Judaism only. His understanding was the salvation is only belongs to Jews, but when he was in the bally of Fish he understood the greatest Truth and accepted this fact “But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD” (Jon. 2:9).
This is same fact that today Western Christianity has to know. Salvation is of the Lord and everyone who accept Jesus as Lord and Savior are saved. If God Himself declares in His word “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (Jn. 1: 12, 13). In order to get salvation, one need to have personal relationship with Jesus, it doesn’t matter how long we are going to Church and how many generation we are Christian, but unless we have personal relationship with Jesus, we are yet not saved.
Or let me tell you in very simple way, unless we have personal encounter with Jesus in some point of our life and come into the realization that Jesus and only Jesus is the way to salvation, it doesn’t matter how active we are in our denominations, or how big amount we give donation to our denominations doesn’t make any sense. The first and foremost thing is we need to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Unless, we will be so godly and so zealous towards the Christianity, but we can’t see the brightness of Christ in our own life and just be the stumbling blocks on the work of God.
Prophet Hosea has a prophetic word for us, “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth” (Hos. 6:3)
As a minister of Gospel from third world, I see two main problems in Western Christianity. First, the Ministers here are very much professional and many of them have applied for wrong job as Religious leaders, and second Religious Denominations are running after securing their tithes and offerings by pleasing the members who are attending their religion for generations. Even in the midst of such look warmness, God has raised some ministers who can boldly stand and proclaim “thus says the Lord”. And, the people who claim themselves Christians are running after them like Religious leaders were running after Jesus during his earthly ministries.
It is very easy to find fault of some one, even of a minister of the gospel, because we all are human being. But does it really meet our spiritual need in the spiritual vacuum that Christless mainline western Christianity is creating? As for my personal understanding definitely not, because the vacuum that Christless Christianity has created, only Christ can fill it. And, rather then trying to understanding Christ, it is surely not wise decision to create Godless godliness in our heart.
I know one UK based scholar who claim that Pastor of a Mega Church in East has build one of the largest Churches of world on False Healing. But I have seen there many people who are turning back to God after roaming around the philosophy and Dharma of East and knowing the fact that there is no salvation anywhere else then Jesus the son of God. Unfortunately people from such a Scholar’s own nation (some times even from his own Church) are rejecting Christian religion and roaming around the temples and mosques of East in order to find salvation and peace in their mind.
The point here is the misunderstanding of many Pastors and Ministers that there is no salvation anywhere then Christianity. In fact there is no salvation in any religion, and not even in Christian Religion. Jonah the godly prophet was in same dilemma, he was thinking that there is salvation in Judaism only. His understanding was the salvation is only belongs to Jews, but when he was in the bally of Fish he understood the greatest Truth and accepted this fact “But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD” (Jon. 2:9).
This is same fact that today Western Christianity has to know. Salvation is of the Lord and everyone who accept Jesus as Lord and Savior are saved. If God Himself declares in His word “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (Jn. 1: 12, 13). In order to get salvation, one need to have personal relationship with Jesus, it doesn’t matter how long we are going to Church and how many generation we are Christian, but unless we have personal relationship with Jesus, we are yet not saved.
Or let me tell you in very simple way, unless we have personal encounter with Jesus in some point of our life and come into the realization that Jesus and only Jesus is the way to salvation, it doesn’t matter how active we are in our denominations, or how big amount we give donation to our denominations doesn’t make any sense. The first and foremost thing is we need to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Unless, we will be so godly and so zealous towards the Christianity, but we can’t see the brightness of Christ in our own life and just be the stumbling blocks on the work of God.
Prophet Hosea has a prophetic word for us, “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth” (Hos. 6:3)
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