The Simple Christian

We must be honest in our walk with the lord, and the contrary only leads to deception. To somehow make a god that suits our lifestyle would then be breaking the Commandment of "making a graven image". We would be rejecting the God of scripture and play The Potter and start to form a god that would accept your acts of sin as merely acts of pleasure. 

Being Honest entails, we must Repent of things that God abhors.

things that God has said in His Word that we should avoid and take no part in.

True Repentance looks ugly and too often we make it look cute, but the end product doesn't sell.

in-fact, true repentance usually follows with someone who desires to pursue Christ.

while a false repentance would lead someone to no conviction and no change.

①. What Does it mean to repent?

Turn away from Sin

⦁ Acts 3:19, Mark 1:15 

19 So turn away from your sins. Turn to God. Then your sins will be wiped away. The time will come when the Lord will make everything new.

" Chained by the habit of sin" Billy Grahams 

Act 17:30 "God commands all to people everywhere to repent"

Christians should welcome honest rebukes if that would mean that you have brothers who would keep you accountable in your walk with Jesus.

Example: Galatians 2:11-21 

20 Quotes from Gregory Koukl's Tactics - in X (newcreationinx.com)

Here is a link to Citiation from Greg Koukls Book "Tactics".

if you have read it, definitely let me know what you think about it and has it been helpful. 

Being Saved and walking with the Lord can feel mundane or monotonous if we don't challenge ourselves to live holy. So do we throw in the towel and live nominal, or do we live as Disciples? 

Am I alone in that I reflect on How God has brought me from death to life?

From a place where I focused on temporal and meaningless practices to having "Faith" lens and seeing things for what they are, God-intended.

From saving my soul from eternal death to changing my heart and progressively sanctifying me until His second coming (Phil 1:6).

The other side of the coin is, What if I haven't changed much? Thank God our walk with Jesus isn't performance based. We are not competing with anyone but we ought to be willing to allow the Holy Spirits Fruits be noticeable and allow it to bleed into all facets of our Social and Non-Social life. If we grieve the Spirit (Eph 4:29-32) or quench it (1 Thessa 5:19), we will be faced with a very questionable walk that that 

James 1:23-24 

(23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.)

“Now all has been heard;

Have you ever felt so careful about what you say as a Christian that you would rather be quiet and say nothing than say something and come off wrong?

Too many times are we boxed in for saying the right things that we feel rather "free" when not saying anything at all... but is that or should we be so concerned about what the opinions of others are? 

People will not always love or consider the wisdom of God in scripture and yes, we should be wise about how we communicate the message of the bible but don't be so overwhelmed with the the delivery that satan robs you from an opportunity of doing Gods will.

Everyone is constantly being offended by various ideologies, it just happens that people prefer the comfort of lies than Truth.

With Daniella and John, we talk about how frightening the school system can be if we are not vigilant about our kids.

Daniella shares a bit of how she use to practice and believe in New Age practices.