Happy Easter Monday dear readizens. I guess you guys went to church or at least hold a prayer section in your homes to pray today. I went to church today to celebrate Easter Monday in the presence of the Lord as today marks the day the Lord Jesus Christ today his disciple to meet him in Galilee after which he ascended into heaven. When it was time for sermon, the pastor told one of the elders to give the sermon and I must say I was alterly displeased at the sermon. I immediately wished I had stayed at home or better still go out to have fun like most people will today than sit under that preacher to hear his sermon. For close to one hour, he kept on saying something I have come to dislike. He kept castigating and crucifying those who go to other churches or who left the church for other churches simply because they didn't get what they were looking for. Though I for one, have never been an advocate of church adultery (that is going from church to church seeking the vision of prophets and the prayers of men of God simply because that person feels his prayers as not been answered or that a certain man of God is not powerful or strong enough.). The end result of church adultery is that such a person will definitely fall into the hands of fake men of God and fraudsters. They would be duped of the little they have, slept with, have even more problems compounded into the lives and in worst scenerio killed for money and power rituals. But this doesn't mean that there is no real church of God out there with the pastor been truth to his calling.

The preacher today made it seem like the only true church in the whole wide world is this particular church. He made it seem like for example if I attend his church I don't have the right to go to any other church! He made it seem like all other pastors that are not in that church or in it branches are mere men and doing the wrong thing. Who gave him that thought and teaching? I greatly wonder!

What/who is the church

This problem didn't just started today. Infact, it has been one of the very core problems the church as been struggling with since the very first generation of Christians. Paul for example, addressed he same issue in 1cor. 3

1 Corinthians 3:3-9

[3]For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

[4]For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

[5]Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

[6]I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

[7]So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

[8]Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

[9]For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

If you carfully read the verses above, you will notice that this problem did not actually started from the men of God themselves but from the supposed 'saints' who have termed or labelled their pastors as the best and had come to the conclusion that they are for Paul, Apollo or other men of God. Though in today's world, pastors are now the very set of people to say that their church is the best and I think this is because they don't really know the meaning of the word church and this I say to their shame.

So what is the church?

According to 1 Corinthians 12, the church is actually the body of Christ that is all the believers in the whole wide world!

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

[12]For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

[13]For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (Please read 1 Corinthians downwards to grasp the full gist)

So then it means The Redeemed Christian church of God (RCCG) can not be a church on it own. Infact the combination of the physical churches in the whole wide world is the church of Christ which is the body of Christ. So therefore, it will be a total error to assume that one's church will singly go into heaven with the other churches left behind. It will definitely be a blunter to think that the errors of other churches in inconsequential to one's church. But in the actual fact, it is!

In my country Nigeria, once you say you are a pastor, the police and other security personnels especially in airports will hold you tight and scrutinize the light of Jesus of our of you. This is because evil doers now hide under the covering of 'I AM A PASTOR' to carry out their evil agenda.

Conclusion

The idea or thought that a church is supreme or better than other churches, or the castigation of other churches and telling people that it is wrong to go to other churches should be stopped. Take for example, if I follow a friend for a service in his church pure out of love of brotherhood, not from seeking vain help or power (which I strongly condemn), have I committed a sin? Someone had done this before and her church members came to ask her the reason for absence in the church that Sunday, she had to lie because if she tells them the truth, she would have successfully tagged herself as an infidel and an unbeliever. So, you'd rather make a child of hell than make friendship with other churches? Hypocrites and bunch of Pharisees! I pray the Lord open the eyes of the church early enough to see the damage they are doing to the body of Christ because honestly speaking, THERE IS NO UNITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST