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Easter and the Love of God

April 15, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life, Thoughts • Tags: Christ, Easter, Easter Sunday, Good Friday •

Easter and the Love of God
Easter and the Love of God

It is another Easter season. Traditionally, this period starts when lent (traditional 40 days fasting for Christians) comes around and ends with the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord on Easter Sunday.
On Friday after an agonizing time on the cross, a place he got to by carrying his own cross after receiving a crown of thorns, abuse from the soldiers and mockery from the people, he asked for forgiveness for everyone who had taken part in the abuse of the innocent one and after a while he said it is finished and he gave up his life. He was taken down from the cross, his body was washed and spices were applied to his body and the grave was closed with a very heavy stone and soldiers were appointed to guard the grave and everyone went home for the Sabbath and the passover. On Sunday morning, the world changed forever.

This period is probably the most important period in the life of Christians because it culminates in the resurrection of the Lord which basically is the beginning of the Christian church. During his 3-year ministry, the Lord told the disciples and everyone who cared to listen that he would die and be buried and would rise again and would return to his Father. The disciples would not hear anything of it but he kept on with the message. Another group of people showed interest in this idea but were rather interested in not seeing it come to pass. This group arranged his death, provided false witnesses and judged him through some illegal judgment to ensure that he was out of the way and his “lies” would not come to pass and also made sure that a lie would be circulated concerning the resurrection when it eventually happened. From the moment he was arrested to the moment he said it was finished, his disciples were confused and in disarray. They had left all to follow him, they had trusted him with their lives, everything about them found its identity in him and here they are miserable and helpless because he has been taken from them and there was nothing they could do about it. Then the Lord appeared to them and they saw him and they were convinced that indeed He has risen. They received such an awakening that nothing else could have given to them. Everything the Lord had told them suddenly made sense, they understood him with such clarity they had not had in a while. They were emboldened and they knew immediately what they had to do especially after the Lord himself told them “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matt 28:19-20).

This is the season to remember that the Lord of life, gave himself for people who did not deserve him and received from the people that which he did not deserve but accepted took as the Lamb of God the true passover lamb.

So more than easter eggs and other fun stuff, let us remember to thank God for the best gift ever.

Happy Easter!

Word for Today

March 19, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life, Thoughts, Word •

To the Loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless. To the pure your show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd. For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate. For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness. For with you I can charge a troop, and with my God I can scale a wall. This God – his way is blameless. The word of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him

The Lexham English Bible Ps 18:25–30.

Shepherd’s Conference 2017

March 1, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Issues • Tags: church, conference, leadership, life •

The Annual Shepherd’s Conference Summit of the Grace Community Church Sun Valley California has started. The event will run from Feb 28 to March 3, 2017. This edition is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
So far it has been exciting and encouraging. And the wonderful thing is it streamed life so for folks who are too far to go or can’t make out the time to visit the beautiful campus of Grace Community Church, it is an opportunity to be a part of the summit.

The Ordinary Christian Life

February 27, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Christian Living, Issues, Life •

There is a great problem. It is a problem with the idea of being ordinary. It has been noticed for sometime now that adjectives that emphasis greatness have found their way into the common lexicon, and when we hear them, we definitely turn our heads to see what has caused the latest discussion of the latest word. 
It is tempting to see these adjectives and the words they qualify as something common and in frequent use by promoters of shows and events where their jobs require them to be as brash and loud as possible about the event they are about to host. This is to ensure that sufficient buzz circulates around the immediate vicinity or state and, where there is enough funding, across the nation about the impending show.
It can no longer be so. We can no longer see the idea of describing life and every event and situation that people are involved with grandiose adjectives as things limited to just institutions. It is now with us the people. The people no longer see anything that affects them or proceeds from them as things that should be described with “ordinary” words or to be seen as living the ordinary Christian life.
This idea of not living the ordinary Christian life seems to be a snipe at those who live the ordinary Christian life. We need to unpack that a bit. The ordinary Christian is one who obeys the word of God and serves as a slave to His Lord and not just as a slave but as a brother and friend as well.
He or she is the one who uses the ways God has given to us to walk with him. These ways are not hidden or shroud in mystery, they are means of grace.
We pray with the trust of a young child
We read the bible with trust of a young child
We are baptized in ordinary water used in the community for other purposes
We break bread and drink wine, simple ordinary food in obedience to our Lord.
When we share the goods of this world with one another, we do it through ordinary means.
When we gather together, we sing songs of worship and praise to our heavenly father with the help of our ordinary imperfect voices.
Care and love for one another as children of God is done through praying and support with our ordinary time and provision of our ordinary goods.
When we speak the gospel of truth, we speak to the ordinary people around us. We interact with them aware of the ordinary life they are living and using it as a pointer to our discussion of interest.
Ordinary does not mean mediocre, it does not mean lifeless, it does not mean devoid of value. It means habitual, routine, day-to-day.
It is by doing these things day by day and habitually and routinely that men who have gone before us cut their teeth and were able to live the lives we so endure. 
The righteous life is one lived and expressed by doing the simple ordinary things correctly and faithfully.
Without the routine, habitual, ordinary things of Christ that has been given to us in the bible, we will not be living the life of the ordinary Christian. At that point, we can’t afford to pray that we refuse to live an ordinary Christian life. It is unbecoming.

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