MY UNRELIGIOUS BUT SPIRITUAL ADVICE TO CHRISTIAN SINGLES/MARRIED - Pastor CJ Brothers and Sisters, I encourage you to consider the following so you may not make the right decision based on the wrong reasons. 1. Do not consider someone for marriage because they impress you with long prayers, loud tongues or because they always quote the bible and tell you of their latest conversation with God. 2. Never you measure spiritual life by outward display of religious rituals and activities. Spiritual life is a life lived by the spirit as opposed to the flesh. And the fruit are so easily seen. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Gal 5:22-23). Look at this list again, you will see that these fruits will make any marriage successful under any condition. So rather than look only at how long he/she prays, look at how patient, kind, and loving they are with people. 3. Where these fruits are at play, misunderstandings can be resolved, difficulties can be overcomed, and who does what and brings in what will not be a problem. 4. You must know that church is where everyone comes to look holy and sanctified so neither judge based on church activity. So rather than look only at the activites as proof of their love for God, look at how well they relate with other church members. If someone says, I can't get along with anyone here except you, note that he/she is the problem. 5. God does not want supremacy of one over the other neither does He want equality in marriage. Rather He designed for the 2 unequal parts to make ONE whole. He gave 2 different sex organs so that the coming together of both creates a ONE bond that nothing else achieves. He made that the man will produce the sperm and woman to carry the baby. If He wanted equality both man and woman should be able to do both. If you want equality which is what the world is fighting for, then husband and wife must have equal incomes, equal opportunities, same needs, as well as abilities, but you know this is impossible. So based on abilities and opportunities, if a wife earns 80k and the husband 20k or vice versa, the ONE earns 100k. Because one way or another, both are contributing to each other's ability. So brothers and sisters, if you are praying to God for a spouse or for peace in your home, you must allow God to change you into a new person by changing how you think about marriage. At the end, the delays in finding that person or the cause of the problems at home might not be arrows from the village or because of what you don't have yet, it might be that you have not yet seen marriage how God wants it to be, rather you are asking Him to make it how you want it to be. Shalom! Pastor CJ Chidi Jacob

MY UNRELIGIOUS BUT SPIRITUAL ADVICE TO CHRISTIAN SINGLES/MARRIED - Pastor CJ Brothers and Sisters, I encourage you to consider the following so you may not make the right decision based on the wrong reasons. 1. Do not consider someone for marriage because they impress you with long prayers, loud tongues or because they always quote the bible and tell you of their latest conversation with God. 2. Never you measure spiritual life by outward display of religious rituals and activities. Spiritual life is a life lived by the spirit as opposed to the flesh. And the fruit are so easily seen. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Gal 5:22-23). Look at this list again, you will see that these fruits will make any marriage successful under any condition. So rather than look only at how long he/she prays, look at how patient, kind, and loving they are with people. 3. Where these fruits are at play, misunderstandings can be resolved, difficulties can be overcomed, and who does what and brings in what will not be a problem. 4. You must know that church is where everyone comes to look holy and sanctified so neither judge based on church activity. So rather than look only at the activites as proof of their love for God, look at how well they relate with other church members. If someone says, I can't get along with anyone here except you, note that he/she is the problem. 5. God does not want supremacy of one over the other neither does He want equality in marriage. Rather He designed for the 2 unequal parts to make ONE whole. He gave 2 different sex organs so that the coming together of both creates a ONE bond that nothing else achieves. He made that the man will produce the sperm and woman to carry the baby. If He wanted equality both man and woman should be able to do both. If you want equality which is what the world is fighting for, then husband and wife must have equal incomes, equal opportunities, same needs, as well as abilities, but you know this is impossible. So based on abilities and opportunities, if a wife earns 80k and the husband 20k or vice versa, the ONE earns 100k. Because one way or another, both are contributing to each other's ability. So brothers and sisters, if you are praying to God for a spouse or for peace in your home, you must allow God to change you into a new person by changing how you think about marriage. At the end, the delays in finding that person or the cause of the problems at home might not be arrows from the village or because of what you don't have yet, it might be that you have not yet seen marriage how God wants it to be, rather you are asking Him to make it how you want it to be. Shalom! Pastor CJ
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November 10, 2017 at 04:30AM
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ABOUT THIS WHOLE TITHE THING The shallow observer cannot see that this tithe debate is not about giving but as my friend, pastor, and brother, Adebola Ajagunna puts it, "people are becoming more frustrated with the face of the church they are seeing" In all I have read so far, what he said is the truth that both the theologians and zealots have failed to see. There is something wrong when shepherds appear to live in super wealth while the struggling sheeps are encouraged, sometimes manipulated, and threatened to give. Remember, giving is no longer free-will when you say that God will curse anyone who fails to pay. So before you declare your allegiance, proclaim your revelation, I highly encourage you to see where the problem is coming from. And if you claim God has called you to SERVE HIS SHEEP, we must speak out and cry out when it appears they are being taking advantage of. No revelation is greater and no calling is greater than this: feed my sheep. Shalom! Pastor CJ Chidi Jacob

ABOUT THIS WHOLE TITHE THING The shallow observer cannot see that this tithe debate is not about giving but as my friend, pastor, and brother, Adebola Ajagunna puts it, "people are becoming more frustrated with the face of the church they are seeing" In all I have read so far, what he said is the truth that both the theologians and zealots have failed to see. There is something wrong when shepherds appear to live in super wealth while the struggling sheeps are encouraged, sometimes manipulated, and threatened to give. Remember, giving is no longer free-will when you say that God will curse anyone who fails to pay. So before you declare your allegiance, proclaim your revelation, I highly encourage you to see where the problem is coming from. And if you claim God has called you to SERVE HIS SHEEP, we must speak out and cry out when it appears they are being taking advantage of. No revelation is greater and no calling is greater than this: feed my sheep. Shalom! Pastor CJ
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November 08, 2017 at 03:12AM
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via IFTTT ABOUT THIS WHOLE TITHE THING The shallow observer cannot see that this tithe debate is not about giving but as my friend, pastor, and brother, Adebola Ajagunna puts it, "people are becoming more frustrated with the face of the church they are seeing" In all I have read so far, what he said is the truth that both the theologians and zealots have failed to see. There is something wrong when shepherds appear to live in super wealth while the struggling sheeps are encouraged, sometimes manipulated, and threatened to give. Remember, giving is no longer free-will when you say that God will curse anyone who fails to pay. So before you declare your allegiance, proclaim your revelation, I highly encourage you to see where the problem is coming from. And if you claim God has called you to SERVE HIS SHEEP, we must speak out and cry out when it appears they are being taking advantage of. No revelation is greater and no calling is greater than this: feed my sheep. Shalom! Pastor CJ

I just wish this hot discussion about tithe was about loving one another: The only direct commandment Jesus gave us. Chidi Jacob

I just wish this hot discussion about tithe was about loving one another: The only direct commandment Jesus gave us.
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November 06, 2017 at 02:48AM
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Just how far we have moved away from the truth: Today when you mention annoiting, the pentecostal thinks of someone falling down. Chidi Jacob

Just how far we have moved away from the truth: Today when you mention annoiting, the pentecostal thinks of someone falling down.
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November 04, 2017 at 03:29AM
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Why is our gospel changing lives? It is not bible ideas on how man can help himself, it is 100% the power of God to save them. Chidi Jacob

Why is our gospel changing lives? It is not bible ideas on how man can help himself, it is 100% the power of God to save them.
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November 02, 2017 at 02:37PM
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"Our best efforts and hard work mean nothing. It takes very little to trip. Years of what we consider hard work and toil can be undone in one moment. Until we learn to realize we are nothing. That we have no power of our own and that its all by grace and dependence on him, we will continue in the rat race trying to be good but there is no good in us without him." From my brother Adebola Ajagunna Chidi Jacob

"Our best efforts and hard work mean nothing. It takes very little to trip. Years of what we consider hard work and toil can be undone in one moment. Until we learn to realize we are nothing. That we have no power of our own and that its all by grace and dependence on him, we will continue in the rat race trying to be good but there is no good in us without him." From my brother Adebola Ajagunna
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October 31, 2017 at 07:10PM
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Let alone, man does not have what it takes to be good without repeated failure. Unless we understand this, we will continue to give them good, powerful, passionate, and reasonable speeches on critical virtues like integrity and self control, but they will continue to do and live otherwise. Chidi Jacob

Let alone, man does not have what it takes to be good without repeated failure. Unless we understand this, we will continue to give them good, powerful, passionate, and reasonable speeches on critical virtues like integrity and self control, but they will continue to do and live otherwise.
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