Church Chronicles With Ayo Talks

  I've been nearly a Christian for nearly 18 years and I've seen this toxic gospel of outcasting ex-Christians who have left the faith why do we as Christians have this petty and problematic behaviour? Why are we being spiteful to those who left the presence of God instead of us trying to bring them back?  We as Christians know how the story goes or maybe this has happened to you, someone leaves the church/Christian group chat/forum or the faith altogether is isolated and alienated by those who are still in that Christian institute whether it's blocking their number, cutting them off, unfollowing them of all social media platforms and last but not least pastors making sly jabs at them in their sermons, we are called to help and save the lost not chastise them as if they did some heinous crime of the face of the earth, imagine Jesus not helping or healing the criminals and problematic people of His time because they were considered immoral by their society when He was here i...

There's never been such a problematic gospel as the purity gospel, there's been all sorts of problematic and terrible doctrines but nothing as problematic as this one.  What is the purity gospel? A gospel that teaches you the more you abstain and refrain from fornication and sexual acts the "better" you are than those who who have taken part in those things, yes we must abstain and prepare ourselves for marriage as the scriptures say, but we also shouldn't have an inferiority complex over those who are not abstaining. It has also been an issue in the Christian community when Christian couples or married couples have had a lack of desire for each other purity gospel has taught us that affection or sex is so bad that Christian married couples have suffered. Sex is not a bad thing it was given to us by God unfortunately society and the devil have perverted it doesn't mean we should stigmatize hence why I'm so against the purity gospel!  How do we combat purit...

I watched an interview with iconic gospel singer Kirk Franklin once, and he said to get closer to God he had to lose his religion. and I got what he said he wasn't talking about the religion James 1 talks about he was talking about man-made, routine religion.  What is man-made routine religion? A religion that makes you serve God on autopilot, you only do what the church says, you follow the doctrine that has nothing to do with God you pray in the same, lethargic and cliche way & you fast in the same, lethargic and cliche way, God wants to have a faith where it's not robotic, not routine because organised and routine religion takes us far from God.  For this reason, Jesus called out the religious Christians, when He was here on earth because they were doing the things as I mentioned in the previous paragraph plus being performative. Our faith needs to be a lamp that's burning for the fire that's mentioned in the Old Testament , how do we do this? Knowing the word fo...

  The day I heard this time my faith changed forever, what is spiritual deconstruction? Do I have to be a new Christian? Do I have to start again? In today's blog, I'll describe what this term means and how we can deconstruct our faith.  What is spiritual deconstruction? It's termed coined by the American modern-day church where they teach Christians, ways we can rethink, unlearn and be reborn so we can have better and stronger faith and a stronger relationship with God, for example when your old shoes/trainers are full of hole's and broken you replace them, old buildings need to be renovated so they can last longer and look better, as Christians we need to be deconstructing our faith, we can do this by unlearning toxic Christian traditions such as abandoning ex-church members, judging certain demographics of society, getting baptised again if you went back to sin, finding a better way to worship those are one of the ways we can deconstruct our faith. I deconstructed my...

  We as Christians need to come out of this mindset of thinking we have to be like the world to attract the world, yes this model may work in the advertising and marketing world it doesn't work with the spiritual things such as making spiritual content.  Christians think we need a Christian Love Island, Christian Breakfast Club or whatever the world makes we must make to get as many people as possible to God, even gospel music has taken this cliche route to many gospel artists sounding like Migo's, Drake or Beyonce, this Is not what God want's!!!!! God wants us to be authentic, empathetic and enthusiastic when we are making content for Him! Yes, we can take ideas and concepts from secular content but we shouldn't try to be exactly like secular content!  Today's blog is not all for believers it's mainly for Christian who create content for the kingdom of God!!! Jesus didn't confirm what was hot and popular when He was on this earth so why should we? This is w...

One of the biggest gripes that I have with being a Christian and social media is that there's a lack of unity within the Christiandom, if it's not debated about what a believer can or can't do in the bedroom when married, it's arguments about whose denominations are better or if we like Pr Mike Todd or not, what happened to follow the verse in Mark 12:31 where it says to love all our neighbours? It's like we purposely want to fight each other on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat, Christianity is a movement inspired by God to bring people together to worship God as one body, whether we are Pentecostal or 7-Day Adventist, whether we have our Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday, just like there are different types of trainers, boxers or food, different types of Christians believe different things or serve God differently and that's ok!!!! What is not ok is to beef each other and have civil wars like it's a Marvel movie that's what the devil wants us to do!!!!! That...

How many of us, or how many people do we know left the church because of gossip or any other offence but when our family or work place did a similar thing we forgave or never left our job?  I'm not here to dismiss or justify anyone's Church hurt but why is it we are quick to leave the church, but we'll still support the sports team who let us down, the family members who hurt us or the work place who treats us in justly Why as we young people say "are not keeping the same energy?" Yes there's members or Christians who were molested, sexually and spiritually abused and their case is justified and we know it's very tough to bring their souls back to God but this blog is for those who left the church for petty reasons such as gossiping, being held accountable on any other silly reason people leave.  I personally feel people use God/the church as scape goats, and it just shows their hearts were never in God, if the Devil can use any petty reason to make you le...

If you like me are from the charismatic, Pentecostal faith you're all familiar with the prosperity gospel! A gospel that is taught that if your love life, family life, health and especially your finances are not where it's meant to be you don't have "enough faith" or you can't glorify God and I'm here to tell this teaching is problematic and toxic and in today's blog, I'll tell you why I no longer believe in this gospel.  I no longer believe in this gospel because not everyone is meant to have this great life, yes the Bible has more than 8000 promises for us, but some believers fought their whole lives for certain blessings and died not getting it, are they less Christian? Did they lack faith? No, it's just that they never got their blessing one way or another, Moses never saw the promised land, and Job Lost his kids but it doesn't take away from their legacy or their great faith just like the great athletes who never won many titles in the...

  There's this notion that if we fold our arms and just pray for what we want, God will just automatically give it to us just like some magic trick, as James 2:14-16 states "Faith without works is dead"  If you want a promotion, do things that will help you get a promotion, I.e learning the business, doing over time,  if you want to be healed do things that will help you get healed I.e going for check-ups, listening to the doctor's advice, as I always state bar Elijah praying for the fire to come down to prove God exists and the idol of Baal didn't, there was no other miracle or blessing received by just praying and waiting on God!!! Everyone who was and is blessed by the power of God people had to do an action to get to their blessing.  To conclude we need to banish this fairy tale, Disney gospel of just praying and waiting on God, yes some blessings and miracles take longer to come but it doesn't mean we fold our arms and wait decades on God, this is why man...

  In today's blog, I'll be writing about where I think the state of gospel music is, where the scene is heading and how it looks so sit back, relax, enjoy and disagree or agree with what you're about to read lol.  Gospel music is neither in a good nor bad place it's a genre that lacks balance, what I mean by this is, that gospel artists are either being so creative that they're breaking barriers and not being the one dimensional and linear genre it used to be or they're trying to follow the sound of today's generic sound. The scene needs to know whether the content, substance and lyrical subject glorify the Lord and If it doesn't then no artist should be making music, as much as gospel subgenre's like Christian rap & afro beats have slowly crept in where the mainstream masses know who we are and the world is noticing our scene it's also being slowly diluted into the pop sound where there's no difference between it being secular or gospel ...

Today I'll be plugging and giving you 5 great gospel artists to look out for. Sometimes I get the struggle when looking for good, substantial and quality gospel so here are 5 amazing gospel artists you should be looking out for!!!  Renzo BA If you like Afrobeats and UK afro swing you're going to adore Renzo BA, the London native has been around in the scene for a short time now but is taking the gospel scene in a chokehold with his range of great hooks and catalogue of songs.  Samoht  Another gospel artist from the UK, who is taking the game by storm, the singer who has a great voice will take you to another level when listening to his music, Be Ok, one of his bangers, will showcase what a great talent he is.  Still Shadey  The Muswell Hill native who's just been engaged, in my opinion, who has been carrying the U.K gospel scene on his back for the past couple of years is one of the poster boys of UK gospel with his amazing hooks, melodic sound and great versati...

This is a story of what our salvation could look like, as much as it's a fictional story I want to emphasise why we need to be saved and have salvation.  John Smith, 34 died on April 12 at 3.07 am in his sleep, cause of death? Natural causes his soul enters the kingdom of heaven where there's a long queue, where everyone awaits their judgment to see if they're in the Book of Life. An anxious John looks nervous as he doesn't know where he's going.  God: Hello John Smith I'm so glad to see you.  A confused John Smith looks at God and his angels.  John: You Are?  Angel 743 and Angel 645 look at each other  Angel 743: He's so nervous and tense, that he doesn't know he's about to join us in heaven.  God looks at the Book of Life, he finds a certain page and beams with joy  God: Haaa John Smith!!!!! Yes here you are  John looks confused.  John: I'm in the book of life? But God I wasn't worthy. I had my sins, I got angry, I overthought, I overi...

  You know the saying you can run but you can't hide, morally you can run but morally you can't hide many of us Christians are being deceitful with this logic that "it's not in the Bible so it's ok to do it"  We know the law, we know what's right and wrong yes the Bible was written many years ago but we know when we are sinning and when we are not, you know watching TV without a licence is a crime we can't say because it's not in the Bible it's a justification to watch TV with no licence, just because the Bible doesn't mention about consuming illegal drugs doesn't mean it's ok to do it, you know where I'm going with this………… we cannot be deceitful because we are not fooling anyone.  I've used this argument before and I knew deep down I was wrong and not right before God, and this is what Progressive Christianity teaches that you can do what you want when you want, this is why I'm so against this new age Christian movemen...

Y ou can hide something for so long it will eventually come out, Cain killed Abel, even though God knew as He is all-seeing and all-knowing Cain tried to hide it, Adam and Eve disobeyed and when God confronted him, he tried to throw Eve under the bus, there are plenty of examples of many people trying to hide their sin, and it got exposed.  Whatever you do in the darkness will eventually come out the affair one is having, the other married party will find out, you steal you'll eventually get caught, you commit any type of fraud the police will eventually catch you, I say this to say, why live in secret with your sin when you can be free in the open with a clear conscious? We all know that whatever we're doing is wrong and you can only hide so much for so long, you can lie for so much but eventually, you'll be caught red-handed like a celebrity caught up in a scandal they've been trying to hide!  Even if you're never caught, spiritually God knows what you're doin...

We are in days where, unfortunately, we are in an over sensitive society/generation where the truth triggers and offends people, the truth will always set us free as they say honesty is the best policy. Many Christians don't like the truth, our pastors hold us accountable, we leave the church, our close ones correct us, we want to fight and argue with them, the preacher preaches about a sin you're doing, you're angry but why? One of the bases of our faith is, to be honest, tell the truth and be held accountable so why does it offend us? This is pride and it's what made Lucifer, Satan take away your pride and ego and humble yourself because the truth is not meant to offend, it's meant to correct us to hold us accountable.  I'm so passionate about this because I was this Christian, that was stubborn, egotistical and proud you couldn't tell me anything because I thought I was always right but God had to humble me!!!!!! Now when I hear a truth that I don't l...

We all know the famous verse give to God what's God and Cesar what's Caesars, this verse wasn't only about paying taxes, tithes and offerings but the bit where it says you should give to Caesar what's his, it wasn't only taxes that the verse meant it also could mean honouring those around and anything you have an obligation to. As we must give man what we owe to them.  How do we as God's children honour those around us? Being obedient and giving to family, honouring your friends, honouring your work colleagues and managers, honouring your church, the congregation and the church leaders not only people you should honour, honour your bills, contracts, God cannot honour those who don't honour their earthly obligations as well as our spiritual ones, remember as I always say in these blogs we must be a great testimony to God at all times and through our time on this earth, yes we are not perfect, we fall short at times but God loves a trier.  The reason why it...

As a Christian before the world, the society we have to show a good testimony and a good advert to our family, hence why one of our most important duties is to honour our family.  How does a believer honour their family? Respecting our parents, uncles and aunties, being giving to our siblings, cousins and elders and being loving and kind to them, before anyone in this society our family will know whether we are good Christians or not after all they raised and live with us, even more so we need to be great testimonies by honouring our families.  Not only do we have to honour our family the best thing we can do is bring them to God, remember our family's salvation is in our hands. Yes, we can feed, love, support and care for our families but we also need to be bringing spiritual provision for our family. Remember what 1st Timothy 5:8 says.  Until next time guys, thanks for reading my blog if you have any queries about my blogs or want to know more about Christianity C...