Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008

One of the wonderful women with whom we meet at the bible study every Sunday approached me wondering whether my girlfriend and I have found a common ground for our church issue, now that she was leaving the country.
I felt dumb founded because as Christians, having issues over the church is definitely majoring in minors, even sticking on "hide while the meet is gone".
To make matter worse, having thousands of denominations doesn't really show the difference in Christianity to a Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist.
It makes no sense to be busy figuring out in what kind of church we want to serve God, while Jesus is so desperate to have our full attention.
Again this reminds me of Martha who was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made to serve her honorable and distinguished guest only to learn that the one she was complaining about--for not helping her in these preparations--had chosen what is better, and that it would not be taken away from her," not even by these kind of preparations. Luke 10:38-41
How often we are worried and upset about many things including churches, to finally learn that only one thing is needed. To be "at Jesus feet” and learn from his lips.
But here comes a question to a sincere believer:
"Should we just buy any thing that comes in the name of Jesus?" Someone, who claims to speak for Christ, recently prophesied that by Dec 20th, every woman in Kigali who wears pants and not skirts will die". While we're waiting for that prophecy to be fulfilled, we can only imagine how much we chose to ignore prophecies of Daniel and John that have been standing there for centuries, only to keep embracing prophecies like the ones of Hal Lindsey's about middle east despite every single prediction of his falling flat.
However big is the number of denominations we attend, what we learn at Jesus feet is not the "relative" truths as found in our respectful denominations. What we learn from His lips, is His "absolute truth" (no matter who we listen to on our churches pulpits) as found only in Him because not only is He a truth teller, but He is absolute truth Himself, NOT dependant on our human interpretations.
This one "absolute" truth -- as opposed to the "relative" human truth is what brings together the diversity of tongues, kindred, races and cultures in one accord to recognize His own supremacy and creator-ship, hence a call to His true worshipers scattered around many churches and denominations to worship him in just one way: "in spirit and truth", --for those who worship him "in Spirit and Truth" are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks--John 4:23
Is the number of denominations determined by the number of "truths and spirits" ?
I would like to not hope so. One thing we can be sure of however, is that there is someone else who coverts our worship. Rev.13 warns us. And this someone else must have a different, alternative "relative truth and spirit" in which he would have us worship him. The sad news is that it's a multitude that worships him despite the warnings that have been there for centuries.
And it takes the "one absolute truth and spirit" to discern his malice, and because he wants to deceive as many elect as he can, he doesn't oppose the absolute truth openly, he acts like he has no problem with it, only offering a privilege to alter the absolute truth, sadly one of the reason being that we're under grace!
"He acts like an angle of light", but actually he is baddon and Apollyon meaning " Destroyer" who has always coveted the place of Jesus who alone spoke and everything came into existance. And while many think they worship the creator, by ignorance they may worship the alternative truth teller (the father of all lies)
The relative truth leads to an alternative and confused (Babylonian) system of worship from which the Lord is desperately calling his people to "Come out of", so that they would not share in Babylon’s (confused system of worship) sins, and not receive any of Babylon’s plagues. Revelation 18:3-5.