When will the Church start BUILDING and stop CRITICIZING?

Hey guys its Friday so I hope you are as excited as I am to be entering the weekend! This week I was on social media and found this video. Apparently, some organization by the name of "Go Ministries" posted this and it has gone rather viral. Now I don’t know them... not mad at their OPINION, because that's what it is... and OPINION. But I do have a problem when people post, state, or mention things that are not factual in factual stance. For example, if I ask you "Is raining outside?", I’m asking for you to give me a FACT, not tell me "NO, based on you THINKING the weather will clear up today. You have just given me an opinion like it was the truth (aka factual stance). Get it now? Anyhoo, check out the video below and tell me what you think?

Interesting....  Yep, that's my new word I used to describe something when I don't have good/nice/happy words for it.  (lol)

I will say this though... This video is bull crap, and is EXACTLY how propaganda works! This TOTALLY takes his interview out of context. I actually saw the FULL interview (which I posted below), and agree with Kirk on MOST of what he said. That many people really are so caught up in the "words" and "stigma" of RELIGION, doing for the sake of doing, rather than being more concerned with the "action" of SPIRITUAL ONENESS AND UPRIGHTNESS WITH CHRIST. This generation does NOT care if you have a 18pc suite on... this generation does NOT care that you cooked Sunday dinners after church... this generation does NOT care that you GO to church every Sunday and Wednesday... this generation does NOT care that you know all the books of the Bible and quote them like you quote your top 5 Facebook friends... they don’t even care that you serve or speak in tongues; to be honest, I really could less myself! ALL they want to see is DO YOU HAVE GOD? CAN YOU SHOW ME HIM? Better yet, can you SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE IN TODAY'S SOCIETY while being FREE? Period point blank. At no point in that or any other interview have I EVER heard Kirk deny, God, the POWER of God, Christ being his Lord and Savior, him being perfect, him being so saved that he could tell you how you're a part of the illumed, or any other foolishness.

What I HAVE heard him say is how he battled with his issue (porn addiction to be exact); how he fell from grace, but was covered and restore by the Grace of God and how his mission is to bring people, young people and NON-believers to Jesus Christ. WHO CARES about him taking picks with NON-Christians?! IF you plan to impact the marketplace outside of the four walls of your church you just may have to actually interact and network with others (NON-believers) to be exact. I tell you, I’m sick of the silliness of the Christian community and I'm a part of it!!!

Now, on the "homosexuality question", I admit, he was doing a LOT of stuttering.  *lol* My opinionated argument is that he was probably trying not to "say the wrong thing". BUT, the Bible does speak of Spiritual Indignation. We are to stand for what is right and what is Holy. Yes the Bible is very clear on what GOD says about it, there is no in between. But again, without judging, my opinionated argument would be that his answer of saying "the same thing it says about heterosexuality" was him saying "it says the TRUTH, for both and is not changed". Again, that was me not jumping to conclusions and actually LISTENING to what he said. Im reminded of the scripture in James:

James 4:11-12 ESV Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Final Thoughts: I’m not a DIE-HARD Franklin fan, but I do like his music and I do respect his hustle. As mentioned, I do think this was taken out of context, as most things and every meme of a picture with someone else's words are.  At the end of the day, there are SO many more things, issues, concerns, and demons to fight and protest about... Let's not do it our own (God's people), the world does it enough for us.  #Sela #getfreetoday

here is the actual video from Kirk and the Breakfast Club

Sometimes You WIN some. Sometimes You LOSE some…

There could not be a more overused and undervalued catchphrase in the English language!

Wins vs Losses

  Ok… thinking about it yea it could be, but still I digress… But today, I had not so much an epiphany, as I did a word of distinction from God. Over the last 6 months or so I’ve been doing, what I call, an involuntary audit of so called “friends” in my life. Now I do have a set of rules, which to most, seem a bit harsh and outlandish, but to me seem quite suitable for to my standards and lifestyle. For example, IF you are a saved contact in my phone, but we speak maybe 1-2 times a year (at most), you never text or even email me, then you really are not “contact” worthy. You are a familiar (because I know you) random caller who calls occasionally and probably plays NO role in my life, immediate or distant, therefore you get deleted. Seems simple enough right? Let’s move on…

So there have been a few people, whom I’ve deleted all contacts with because they abruptly stopped or no longer answer my calls, emails, texts or even fb posts when I have tried to reach out to them. Even though they LIVE on social networks are are CLEARLY getting my messages, but choosing not to respond, for whatever reason. In most cases many of those same people who I delete end up calling or emailing me and attempt to apologize for their behavior and reconcile a possible relationship. Sometimes, it works… sometimes it doesn’t. More recently, a good but flaky former friend of mine sent me a fb message apologizing and “explaining” their reason for being so dismissive and blatantly non responsive. At first glance, I wanted to immediately hit the DELETE button and keep it moving… but I was #1 intrigued, and #2 knew that they deserved to be heard, at the very least. So I read it… Indeed their expression was very humble and they in fact explained their reason for this (which for the record, CLEARLY made no sense at all), again I digress… At the end of reading the letter, for the second time, I asked God to give me the words to say because I didn’t want to revisit old feelings and act out of emotion; neither did I want to give them the treatment that they gave me, because what would they learn in that? So I responded with kindness, forgave and thanked them and at the end gave them what they thought their rejection took from me… LOVE. Afterwards I asked God, “Why was I given unwarranted rejection by yet another person whom I regarded as close to me?” I hadn’t felt that kind of feeling since my Ex lover. Then God showed me, that this is rejection from MAN, not GOD; and sometimes, like it did in 2010, man’s rejection will push you closer or allow you to be vulnerable enough to be drawn in by God’s love, hence, losing something to gain something greater! So it made sense why I wasn’t spiteful, or hadn’t even cared to serve him up a dose of my usual sarcasm. The story in the book of John came to mind when Jesus asks Peter after he had denied him, “… DO YOU LOVE ME?” Clearly, Peter already felt like dog ish as it was, so it was no need for Jesus to give him the 3rd degree or rub it in… Even more, God showed me by my willingness to easily forgive, not require or expect a VALID reason from other people regarding their behavior towards me and my ability to discern the true (spiritual) reason for things, really revealed my maturity in HIM. So I suppose I can accept the rejection of the counterfeit, if that will get me closer to the love of the AUTHENTIC. And with that being said, I would rather lose, and to some degree may have lost everything, but if gaining him is knowing what I now KNOW, then truthfully, I haven’t’ loss at all! #StillWinning  #getfreetoday