Believe And Be Saved

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Building Christianity around your local culture narrows the scope of your reach as a Christian.

Most of us naturally want to be around people who are like us.

People who think like us, speak like us, and share the same values with us.

This is why there are Yoruba dominated churches and Igbo dominated churches and Hausa dominated churches.

If what is preached is christ and not cultural reinforcement, such churches will no longer see colour, race or creed.

Things like tattoos, earrings, dreadlocks, colouring of hair, dressing, and so on would not be the dominant factor in deciding the level of compliance and conformance of each individual, not to Christ but to our cultural beliefs.

You can imagine that some years ago (2006) at the Baptist students' fellowship, Osun Conference, I was not allowed to teach Sunday School because I was wearing Jeans.

They said jeans are worldly adornment and it is cut and sew trouser that were accepted as the kingdom standard.

These same Christians in Ejigbo will not accept the dressing of those of us attending the University of Ibadan Baptist Church, where ladies were allowed to wear Jeans at that time.

Same denomination, different location, different acceptable standard of Kingdom dressing,

This was informed by their level of education, enlightenment, and most significantly, poverty.

Don't do this, don't do that, don't touch, don't handle, as described in Colossians 2:21, are rigid man made acetic rules pushed by legalistic adherents, and they are of no effect to those of us who have died and conformed to the image of Christ.

Therefore, let no man judge you regarding food, drink, religious festivals, and so on was the admonition of Apostle Paul on such issues.

We were once at a retreat in the UK.

The white folks were on one side, while the black folks were on the other side.

The retreat center was very big and accommodated five different groups at once

The white folks had a bar with alcoholic drinks and cigarrettes etc on their side.

We Africans didn't have any such things on our side.

We were all there for the weekend, having several sessions of teachings and ministrations.

I observed that we were not better than them, and they were not better than us.

We were all one in Christ.

The cap of division we all wear in the flesh is not recognized by the Holy Spirit.

My brothers are free to live their lives to the fullest expressions of the Holy Spirit.

If you ever see angels in their colourful arrays and splendour, you will understand that keeping human standards is not of any interest to God.