Church Chronicles With Ayo Talks

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2  A lot of Christians and pastors confuse and misconstrue the context of this verse, so as I write this blog let me put it right, when the Bible mentions the world it mentions the things of this world, it's not necessarily saying the whole wide world is bad because God made the world so how can it all be bad? But if I'm honest a lot of things are garbage and are detrimental to our faith. "So Ayo what in the world is bad?"  Romans 12  talks about the things of this world that can corrupt, ruin and be toxic to a Christian so things like some music, cultural traditions, sexual immoral things like porn, nude culture and promiscuity, so anything that contradicts and goes against the word of God is bad, and we need to cut off!! I can go on until 2025 with all the worldly...

There's a new wave of Christians in our community and they're called Progressive Christians. But believe me, they're anything but no offence, they're spewing this agenda that you can remix the Bible like a P Diddy or DJ Khaled song. The Bible is black and white, very firm and we cannot fit our agendas to serve God on how we want, but we must serve God on how HE WANTS US TO SERVE HIM.  Progressive Christianity has been around before this new spearheaded movement had a title, led by one of their pioneers Christian Youtuber, God Is Grey she spews dodgy ideologies such as you can sleep around before getting married. Many of them believe that there is no heaven and hell, that some parts of the Bible are not real, you don't have to tithe or give offerings which totally contradicts Malachi 3 and that spiritually speaking we can have our cake and eat it and not be held accountable. I'm not here to judge or condemn anyone's ideologies, faith or spiritual walk with G...

What is projection or projecting? The English Dictionary says it's when an "attribute or transfer an emotion or desire to (another person), especially unconsciously." In the modern-day church and our Christian community, there's way too much projection, if it's not a pastor forcing his faith and his way of doing things in the church, it's Christians bullying, gaslighting and judging other believers because they don't "serve" God the way they do whether it's fasting, how to pray or what genre of music we should listen to.  In the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus's adversaries the Pharisees came for Him because He didn't follow the law of Moses as this is what they based their doctrine and faith on where they believed they were the only evangelical movement that were serving God correctly, where as Jesus followed the law of God and came to give people the gospels of grace not the gospels of man, a cult, a religious establi...

Elijah was afraid [ b ]  and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,   while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough,  Lord ,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”     Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”   He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. 1st Kings 19: 3-6 When you read the story of Elijah, as he went through mental health before it became mental health he was so depressed, he became suicidal before God comforted and reassured him in 1 Kings as life got on top of him in the book of  the 1st epistle of Kings. A lot of Christians who could relate to Elijah are going through it and th...

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 We live in a society where we don't want to forgive, give people a second chance and we use past mistakes, crimes and misdemeanours against them, where the Cancel Culture Police want to imprison those especially celebrities like R Kelly, Chris Brown and Dutcahvelli, who were caught in a scandal. What is cancel culture? Is a culture where we as a society especially in the black community condemn, judge and slander those who committed mistakes and demand they have no second chances and their life be ruined, but we all know that with repentance, grace and redemption, God redeems us where man has "cancelled" us.   Out of all the stories of Jesus Christ's ministry, where He gave the thief on the cross salvation, in Luke  23:39-43  is the one that stuck out, just to give context thieves in those times, who w...

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.   Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.     All these are the beginning of birth pains.     “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.   At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,     and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.     Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,   but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.     And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24: 6-14  The above verses are what this pandemic of a virus has brought, such as ...

One keyword that I learnt in the faith is the term "serve" to be a great Christian, not only do we have to serve our sovereign Lord but we must also serve those around us. If we can't serve those around us then, unfortunately, we can't serve God, if we can't obey, respect, love those around us. When we think of the word serve we think of slavery, a butler or a maid slaving for their owner/employer. As this term can be really triggering to black people like myself because of our oppressive history we went through. This is not the case we know that these are the synonyms in the English, Oxford dictionary but to serve is to give a good service to your clients/customers, to be obedient to your parents, to be a good friend, being a great partner to your spouse or being a great parent to your kids or being a parent figure to your niece, nephew or godchildren. It's all good and well to be a good servant in our church or to your pastor but what good is that if you...