Going back to the roots

The late Lucky Dube once sang a song about going back to the roots where he says that reggae music is all that he needed, unfortunately that proved to be a lie, but after listening to that song again I realized his passion for reggae music and the necessity of going back to the original copy of everything. This made me think about the roots of Christianity. Once upon a time Christianity was one of the most influential religious groups and one of the most respected and highly valued faith in the race of mankind, but that remains be once upon a time. I remember those days we went to Sunday school and sang songs about our father of faith Abraham, and how we are one of his sons, and how the song baby Jesus was sang with passion and meaning. I remember being told the importance of reading and praying every day for the basis of growth and being encouraged to read and memorize the bible verses, which are still so fresh in my goofy head.

But the new world order brought a different order of everything, where the human race are allowed to do whatever they feel like doing, whether in church or not. Individualism is taking over communalism of the Christian faith, Christianity was relational, it was about us living like Jesus did in the community. Jesus fed the hungry, he healed the sick, showed compassion to sinners, the bible records that wherever he went he did good. That was one of the best examples he left us with. Am not trying to be judgmental at this juncture but let’s reason together, those passionate, firing Christian of the old times are not there anymore, no one want to be labeled ‘spiritual’, it’s not advisable in the jurisdiction of our generation to say that you are a born again, actually its more stylish when people see how well you are integrated into the world.

The character of Christians is so much wanting, our faith and action head in totally opposite direction. We preach grace in church and sin with her, we desire mercy and ignore her needs, we wants forgiveness from the father yet denied it to his servants, we still sing how we will have a big party in heaven yet we still sent them away those who knock at our doors. Think with me here, is this Christianity? Is this what our heavenly father love seeing? Isn’t this what the bible calls hypocrisy?

Talk about our conscious, some of it is totally seared; it’s not there at all, it’s missing, died ages ago. Just like Dube we need to realize the need of going back to the roots, and not of reggae but of our faith. We need to realize the importance of integrity and fear of our heavenly father. Let’s search our hearts, is Jesus still living there? Is he still the lord our lives or just reduced to that guy who forgives, and hear our cries whenever things are not working according to our will. Pause here for a minute and think, our will; it’s now about our will not his. God has been reduced to the machine that make our dreams come true, and when he can’t do that he is easily replaceable with anything that can make that happen quickly.

I have nothing against the gays, but the act and everything associated with it is sinful otherwise God would have awarded the people in Sodom and Gomorra. Fornication has not been passed as okay in the bible. Go check your bibles, it’s still sinful to look at a woman lustfully, and by the way if you think the wages of sins were promoted to forgiveness and happy life then here is a surprise, it has not. Going back to our roots means doing the fathers will in everything recorded I in his love letter the bible, it means us living as a community, living with integrity and love, helping one another rise up that the point of godliness and righteousness.

 Let’s be old school, listening to the bible not the televangelists with the interest of appeasing our ears and lead us to hell. Just like Paul let us desire to fight the good fight and finish the race before waiting for the crown. Let’s not fight as boxers beating the air, or runners who run aimlessly but let’s bring our bodies under our subjection, least we are left when those we preached to are escorted into the pearls gates.

Wake up lets journey on.