ATTACKED, CRITICIZED
AND PROSECUTED
When we are willing to
judge and criticize, we sit on the throne of God.
IT is surprising the
discomfort that reading, hearing, or seeing criticisms of Christians about
other Christians causes me. If it is painful to see the judgment that we pass
against other Christians for being proclaiming the Gospel of Christ and, they
say or do inappropriate sayings and acts, how much more disagreeable is it to
see pastors and leaders attack the ministry, work and effort of other pastors
or leaders all in the name of supposed sound doctrine? Does Jesus Christ and
his Gospel need to be defended? The hypocrisy of religiosity has wrapped us in
a silken whip that we are unable to measure the damage we inflict on ourselves
by those judgments and criticisms that we make. We honestly do not know the
effort that it represents for any person today to be a Christian and sustain
themselves in the ministry, so that any person, mature or recently converted to
the Gospel of Christ and criticize, attack, and prosecute it. In many cases, we
will find ourselves killing the good honour of that person and in the worst
case, we will be uttering blasphemies against the Holy Spirit of Christ.
“John answered him
saying: Teacher, we have seen one who cast out demons in your name, but he does
not follow us; and we forbade him, because he did not follow us.”
Mark 9. 38
A clear evidence of the
manifestation of the Spirit of God in human beings is the fruits. When I turn
to see the churches and the fruits of these charismatic leaders on society, in
me, the criticisms and judgments dictated against a minister of God are
immediately discarded. You will know them by their fruits, Jesus of Nazareth
told us. So, if I see a newcomer at the feet of Christ bearing a false
testimony against a Christian leader, it hurts, but I understand. However, it
is incomprehensible when a respected pastor of a good church turns his
teachings and videos of him on social media into a single jarring note to rant
against other pastors. Please, let us be mature or newcomers to the Christian
life, let us not play the role of the adversary who only comes to kill, steal,
and destroy.
“But Jesus said: Do not
forbid him; because there is no one who works a miracle in my name, who can
later say bad about me.”
Mark 9. 39
Marcion, a renowned
theologian, was highly criticized and prosecuted for his heresies. He, with his
words and actions, almost led to the division of the church, but that attempt
was easily extinguished and unless you run into him in history, he did not
produce anything, and his actions and works are almost forgotten. Luther with
his reform was likewise attacked, criticized, and prosecuted. However, five
centuries later, we speak of his words and his actions accompany us. God, the
Bible, and the Church are not looking for pseudo defenders. Let us love others
and take care of the church. Let us not stop coming together and beware of
doing the wrong that for this God gave us freedom through Jesus Christ.
God bless you.
ATTACKED, CRITICIZED
AND PROSECUTED
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