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We live in the AGE OF SELF. And SELF IS KING. Seemingly, everything in the world today is responding and gravitating towards the GOD OF SELF. Unfortunately, unscrupulous men at the helm of affairs in the church are also dragging the church down this ignoble path – the path that loves SELF and promotes SELF.  The contrast between ‘what the church ought to be’ and ‘what she is becoming’ is truly alarming. And it is hinged on a simple spiritual truth – the Gospel of Christ is UNRELENTING AND UNYIELDING in its opposition to SELF, and to everything that SELF represents. For at the centre of the Gospel of Christ is the CROSS OF CHRIST. And the function of the cross is to CROSS OUT SELF. Jesus Himself put the CROSS at the centre, making it an ABSOLUTE CONDITION FOR FOLLOWING HIM. “And he said to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny himSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23). On another occasion, He reiterated the same point in...

"But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all" - Galatians 4:1 The Christian faith is the most interesting and challenging in man-to-God, God-to-man relationship. It evolves and grows. Accepting Jesus Christ as your saviour and lord does not AUTOMATICALLY, confer on any Christian the sonship status. It ONLY gives you the Power to become the child of God. - John 1:12 and this the Spirit of God can testify to: Romans 8:16 Children have their nuances, and God expect you to exhibit them, but does not want you to remain there. "When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things." 1 Cor.13:11 Some characteristics of childishness are: "Desire the 'milk' (ABC) of God's word" - 1 Peter 2:2 "Being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrines" - Eph.4:14 "Unskilled in biblical understandi...