Seeking Alignments

Friends, please be wary of making doctrinal 
friends. 
If the teaching of Christian doctrines is the 
only thing that brings you together,  
doctrine will eventually separate you once 
you are at variance. 
The reason is simple. 
We don't arrive at the same doctrinal persuasion 
on many things at the same time, even though 
we have the same Spirit of Christ and read 
from the same scriptures. 
A good look at the book of Acts will reveal that 
the early disciples had doctrinal arguments 
but they were not sufficient to cause acrimony 
among them. 
The drive for doctrinal alignments and 
correctness could sometimes separate people 
more than it binds. 
I recall that when I taught against manipulative 
giving in christian gatherings by those who 
use different spurious theological vehicles 
to extort, I made many friends. 
However, many of them became deeply unsettled 
when I began to teach the doctrine of salvation. 
When I taught that salvation is completely free, 
some did not just unfriend me. 
They blocked me completely. 
I was not entirely surprised because I knew 
what made us friends was doctrinal alignment. 
Nothing more. 
Meanwhile, the true family of God is not expected 
to survive on the bond of doctrinal alignments. 
No!  Doctrinal alignments are fleeting and they 
are too weak a bond to keep people as one. 
In fact, this is the reason we have so much 
divisions in the body of Christ today. 
The family of Christ is bound together by love.
 Period! 
This is the cord that binds us. 
Jesus, in his admonition to his disciples, said 
"....by this shall all men know that you are my 
disciples, if you love one another". John 13:35.
Christ came to raise a family and what family 
shares together goes beyond principles 
and doctrines. 
Families share joy. 
They share pain. 
Family is present and consistent, through 
thick and thin. 
Families don't give up on their own. 
Families are bound by blood and not by 
whether they agree or disagree on issues.  
Same with the family of God.  
Take my own family, immediate and extended,
 for an example. 
In spite of the fact that I came from a deeply 
religious background, I could count on my 
fingers how many of them are comfortable 
with my current doctrinal persuasion and 
unorthodox views of the Christian faith. 
My aged mother, having been notified 
of my teachings, has called me a number of
 times to caution me. 
She would say things like "Son, do you want 
to scatter the church of God"?
However, in all these, we remain family, 
bound by blood, not by doctrinal persuasions. 
In similar vein, children of God are purchased 
by one precious blood and are known by 
the kind of love that they share among 
themselves and not by their doctrinal 
alignments or correctness. 
I could see an army of people who are burying 
themselves in doctrines at the expense of 
the true love that Christ wants us to share. 
Friends, while it is important to pay attention 
to doctrines, never bury yourself in doctrines 
because you could be blinded by them to what 
God is truly saying.  
Don't be a doctrinal junkie. 
Doctrinal junkies only want to prove doctrines. 
They are not trying to be doers of the word. 
Doctrinal junkies only love those who agree 
with them on doctrinal grounds 
(if at all they truly do) and despise others  
Love people. 
Love men. 
Love women. 
Be kind to people, regardless of doctrinal 
differences. 
Man is God's main idea. 
Not doctrinal correctness. 
Doctrines were made for man and#
not man for doctrines. 
It doesn't matter the level of revelation 
knowledge that you have, 
It is tantamount to nothing if you have 
no love. 
I didn't just say so. 
The Bible says so. 
Paul, a man reputed with access to 
mind-blowing revelation about the 
salvation through Christ Jesus wrote: 
"If I could speak all the languages of 
earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, 
I would only be a noisy gong or a 
clanging cymbal. 
"If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I 
understood all of God’s secret plans and 
possessed all knowledge, and if I had
such faith that I could move mountains, 
but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 
"If I gave everything I have to the poor 
and even sacrificed my body, I could 
boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, 
I would have gained nothing. 
"Love is patient and kind. 
Love is not jealous or boastful or 
proud or rude.
"It does not demand its own way. 
It is not irritable, and it keeps no record 
of being wronged. 
"It does not rejoice about injustice but 
rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 
"Love never gives up, never loses faith, 
is always hopeful, and endures through 
every circumstance.
"Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages 
and special knowledge will become useless. 
But love will last forever!
1 Corinthians 13:1‭-‬8 NLT. 
Friends, please meditate on this. 
Let's do a little soul-searching and 
repenting where necessary. 

 I have seen may people who teach good 
but are full of themselves. 
I have seen many who find it hard to share 
their resources, no matter how little, 
but can teach mind-blowing revelation 
about Jesus from morning till night.
The truth is this. 
People really don't care how much you know, 
until they know how much you care....
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with 
Holy Ghost and power and He went about 
doing good....... Acts 10:32
Friends, please go beyond seeking doctrinal 
correctness. 
Open your bowels of mercy and do good to 
people as much as you can. 
This is the stuff you are truly made of.  
Share in people's joy. 
Share in their pain and struggles...
"See that no one pays back evil for evil, but 
always try to do good to each other and 
to all people.
1 Thessalonians 5:15 NLT
"Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, 
we should do good to everyone—
especially to those in the family of faith.
Galatians 6:10 NLT
I have said this before and I'm going to 
write it again. 
If you love doctrinal correctness more 
than you love people, it means you don't 
know God. 
You know doctrines. 
God is love. 

It is a new day! 

NINYO