Church Chronicles With Ayo Talks

With anything in life, we need to invest heavily to be good at, be successful and be great at something, entrepreneurs investing in more business to get richer, athletes investing more time in training themselves to be at the top of their game, so as Christians we need to be very invested in our faith.  In what ways can we invest in our faith?  . Going to church. . Reading your Bible. . Fasting.  . Fellowshipping in your weekday Bible study and being part of the Christian union in your workplace, university or college. Praying consecutively every day.  Watching and reading Christian content.  . Evangelising Jesus to people.  The mistake many believers make is that we believe going to church is enough, it's the be-all and end-all, but it's not the same way we need to find our body with food and drink, the same notion we need to have in our spiritual the more we invest the more spiritually strong we are, I'm not saying be fanatic, extreme and overzealous like...

Not to scare anyone, but do you know how many Christian's are in hell? Many!!! They went to church like us, were in choirs like us, very active in church and very bold and apologetic about their faith like many of us, but they lacked one thing the most import requirement we need to have to get to heaven, they were not saved, and that's why they lost their salvation.  Don't get it twisted with my title, yes we need to exercise our faith such as going to church, reading our Bible, going to a Christian union in our educational institute or whatever extra-curriculum we do in our church, we need to be saved, we need to be right with God, we need to have our salvation in order. As James 2:18-20 says "18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have worked.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that ...

In all my 16 years of worship, I'll never get why we categorize sin? We put sins like paedophilia, killing, rape and terrorism in the highest tier of sin, but yet we see telling a white lie, not honouring our parents or watching live T.V with no licence as a lesser sin, sin is sin!!!!! When you look at the ministry of Jesus He held the woman who was with a man who was not her husband, the same as the tax collector who was overcharging people for their taxes if we don't repent from our sins and we were to die now we are going to hell whether you, God forbid raped someone or told a little lie on your CV for example, yes the consequences are way much higher for raping someone, whereas lying on your CV is not a heinous crime, but God will hold us accountable for every sin we do!!!! Look at  1st Corinthians 6:9-11  the verses state those who worship idols to people who get drunk won't go to heaven, it never said ONLY rapists, killers or drug dealers won't go to heaven lets l...

  I believe that one of the best ways to bring people to God, is that our lives glorify Him, how do we do that? Is by being the best at what we do.  I'm not saying be the best for arrogance and for self-glorification, do it because you want to show the Almighty in our lives, being the best can, be being the best in your workplace, having a successful life God wants us to be the best, be great and be successful so it's easier to bring people to God, people see success and want it too, people see greatness and want to be great too, this is why we should be the best to glorify God.  Just to conclude when you read the gospels from Matthew to John, Jesus did these miracles so people can see the proof that God is real, this is why we should have a great quality of life to glorify our saviour to show proof that Jesus is real and works in our lives, this is why Jesus doesn't want us to be ill He wants to heal us, Jesus doesn't want us to have a broken family He wants to restore...

This may seem controversial, it probably is, but I just feel there are more effective ways of preaching the gospel, in today's blog. I'll be giving my opinion on what other ways you can go about evangelising effectively.  I believe the days of street evangelism are not effective and long gone, I'm not saying don't do it, what I'm saying is there are better ways to do it, I believe that when we do street evangelism in this day and era, people are not interested, people are busy shopping, going out and unfortunately will throw away the leaflets, newspaper of your church away, in a sad reality people don't want to hear it, because they're too busy worrying about other things, "So Ayo what are others ways we can evangelise?" Well, you can do the following; . Invite people you know, and hand out an olive branch, don't force them but always offer them to come to church with you, and leave the offer in their court.  . Make an online platform where you...

Many Christian's don't have a social life and I don't know why? I was in this weird space in my faith where I was ALWAYS in church, I missed family birthdays, career opportunities and even got in trouble with family because I wasn't doing my duties at home, as they say you can't do charity outside in the world, if it's not done at home first! This is wrong because we as Christian's need to have a social life we need balance!  When you look at the Bible, the reason why Jesus's ministry was so effective was that He related to humans, He did what other humans did, such as going out to eat with people, making house visits the first recorded miracle, in the scriptures our Saviour did was in a wedding! Where He turned water into wine,  John 1-11.  I feel many factors like church leaders expecting you to be in church 24/7, Christians thinking the more we are in church the more spiritual we are or we've become so focused on a works faith-based faith, this is...

  As I was looking for a verse for this week's blog this verse stood out to me, as I read in another blog that God has to rebuke, correct and humble the church, just to put us in our place, to show we aren't perfect, sometimes as Christians we are proud and arrogant and why do I say this? Because we as Christians keep debating on who has the best church in the world? But there's no such thing  In Revelations 2:5 the 7 churches in Asia were rebuked and held accountable because they got complacent, & thought they were doing well, until they were rebuked, and this is what I see today we get complacent in our faith, don't hold our pastors and church authorities accountable, but have the cheek to argue we have the best church in the world, if it's not Church A arguing with Church Q on whose the best, it's denomination vs denomination every church is great, every denomination is great who cares on what church is the best? Every church has their weaknesses and thei...