“Praise the lord! God is good!” A young man in a smart suit walks to the front of the congregation at the pastors request. “This man has just donated 10 million naira! Praise praise praise the Lord!” The pastor conducts a special prayer in honour of the man, inviting the blessing of God to come [...]
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“These articles are designed to be read in a set order. If you have not read the previous articles, I highly recommend doing so before proceeding with this article – click here for part 1“ Throughout its history, Christianity has seemed to suffer from a sort of split-personality disorder. On almost every major moral question, [...]
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Hello and welcome to the first of a series of articles that the editors of Radical Chic have been kind enough to ask me to write. My name is Ken Schei and I’m the founder and President of “Atheists for Jesus.” And yes, as the name implies, I am, in fact, an atheist for Jesus. [...]
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A university sets an exam with 10 questions. The examiner states that if you do not get all 10 questions correct you will not gain admission to the university. Perfection is the only thing that guarantees entrance. Many will try, but the standard is high, so many will fail. The above illustration is pretty similar [...]
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The Church A building where a group of people meet. They have meetings every week- usually Sundays because this is the consecrated day of the Lord. Thousands, hundreds of thousand,s and sometimes even millions of units of currency goes into ensuring this building is state of the art. The Service It’s the meeting that lasts about [...]
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This is the last episode of the series. I will make an attempt to summarize where we have come from and where we are going. Hopefully the summary in itself….. will throw the final bit of light to understanding the message of Christ….. and why he was sent to us. So let’s start from the [...]
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Let us go back in order to go forward. Jesus says: Matt 11:27-30 27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. NO ONE KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER, AND NO ONE KNOWS THE FATHER EXCEPT THE SON AND THOSE WHOM THE SON CHOOSES TO REVEAL HIM. 28 “Come to me, all [...]
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Jesus used another parable to demonstrate this issue of repentance: Matt 21:28-32 28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ 29 “‘I WILL NOT,’ HE ANSWERED, BUT LATER HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND WENT. 30 [...]
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Still on the issue of what type of people we are…… lets look at a different scenario with Jesus. Luke 19:11-28 11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at [...]
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In an effort to open our eyes……. It is important for us to take a look at more of the parables that Jesus spoke. Christians believe that the reason why Jesus spoke in parables was because he did not want anyone to understand. This is completely untrue. Jesus spoke in parables “precisely because he wanted [...]
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