ROPES OF IGNORANCE
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Have you ever taken time to observe people? Mine is a disturbing fact that I wished never to think about, incase I defiled Gods wish. However how should we worship? what should guide our style of worship? When should one worship? These are some of the things a Christian should think about. The other issue that comes up from this is, do people really understand Christianity as a religion or do they take it up as a hobby or profession when nothing else is working? People should understand that christianity is full of fun depending on how you want it to be.
Well, as I grew up my parents took me through an interactive Sunday school. My teachers three elderly ladies, equated good morals to Jesus Christ and evil to the Devil. I grew up with the knowledge of hell as a place that I will painfully pay for all my sins. I did not want to miss any of their session not only because of the punishment that I would receive the following day from the Christianity oriented school that I went to, but also because of their interactive nature. My Sunday school teachers with only two remaining and ticking to their 90th birthdays I associate my conscience and good morals to them.
But how many children get lost along the way because they did not get a good orientation to religion. I would not blame any one for deciding that it is a boring institution for people who do not have life. Because of my orientation I would prepare quick speeches to defend the church as a place to interact, socialize with fellow believers and get spiritual nourishment. This is the same reason some brethren’s would not believe in me. Church is a holy place where people should not bring any kind of jokes with fun in church being one of them. This is an impression I get from saintly ones many times. They would want to call me a reformist of the holy Christ church when I continue to speak.
As I sat with a few people in my hostel at Daystar University a renown Christian institution, where I did my first degree one of the random topics came up. This day we were critiquing the student leaders. The debate this day was very heated. Everyone had a thing or two to complain about the political brothers in the student offices, “the buses left me, the food at the dining hall is not up to standard…” the list went on and on. Mine was a different one all together. I began to critique the leaders in our student Christian fellowship. I was immediately shot down with an ignorant statement I had heard before, “they are men of God.” This made me retort almost immediately, So I’m I.
The whole idea is whether political or religious, they took an oath of office that they should live up to. This opened my eyes to the many evils that people observed, were always a kick bellow their belt but could not talk them out for fear of offending God as they had been made to believe by their misinformed leaders. Some people were led to sin because it is the ‘man of God’ who said. But my worry is; what about the ability for man to decide what is right and wrongs that God that is an elevation above that of the other mammals? Or have you left some one rule over it for a selfish benefit? The house went silent. I did not win the debate because I was not out for a competition. I was just trying to drive some sense into some ignorant elites.
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| Sunday school kids enjoy a meal during the trip. |
One very serious one happened to me again in my campus life. A few friends and I decided to support one of our own. She taught at a local Sunday school that was sponsored by the student fellowship. She used her social work knowledge to organize for an event to help the children begin to have fun in attending church. This particular Sunday the children would enjoy time out at some resort watching wild animals. My friend needed more than the crew she has, so she invited us as outsourced teachers for the day. We had a great day with the kids. I had a chance to play the games I had played fourteen years back, took photographs with the beautiful kids, ate togethsr and most exciting watch the animals feed especially the crocodiles. We had to give back a report to our bosses who had gladly sponsored the event. Worst case scenario came when one of the leaders again asked a very irrelevant question, “From which book of the bible do you relate this trip?” I looked at her in shock. I did not understand which cult she inspired and guided. Was I being arrogant for advising/ my friend to leave that to her to decide? I don’t know either.
As an educated Christian I believe that people are misled and misguided on issues that should build them. As a student who has gone through various theology classes, I understand that Christianity is not a religion of pretenders any more. Religion is for the people who understand that it is a life style not a cover of how holy we are. Religion is part of our lives and not a weighing machine of how wrong we are. With the line, “the bible says in the book of …, that we should not…”coming up misplacing on almost everything. Rather on a more positive point a description of the beauty of life.
What should Christians wear to the beach? A friend had a trip to the coastal town of Mombasa for a gospel outreach with missions and outreach team a sub-committee of Daystar Christian fellowship (D.C.F). They had a big task to let the word be heard by the people whose lives are rooted in the Muslim culture. The serious matters took a different turn when some of the men took the gravity of the events too high. When the missionaries had a chance to visit the beach, the dress code did not change it only got tighter. The men went down in suits and tightly done ties. Maybe I could say it is because they did not have a point of reference to the beach wear. Maybe in their view the people of God should not be found indecently in beach wears. My question is how conservative should one get as a Christian leader?
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| Jeannette Munyae a bible student at Daystar University |
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Jeannette Munyae, a bible student at Daystar University views religion open-mindedly. “There is more to life than just dress code, the food we eat, the people we have as friend and coding all these practices to the bible”. In defense of her practices Jeanette viewed Jesus Christ who is the symbol of Christianity as a person full of fun and life. “Jesus attended weddings, had friends, appreciated people and did not use his own practices as a measure of how wrong other people were. Instead he died on the cross to let humanity have a second chance”. In her opinion, “religious leaders should not judge others but live by example of the holy son of God”.
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