First of all, I'd like you all to know I'm a sinner. A big sinner. I was raised a christian, not entirely my choice, but walking along that path till this time that I can decide what my choices are, I'm forced to ask myself why people think its so hard to serve God, through Jesus. When most people are confronted about their lifestyle as a sinner including myself, our reaponse instead facing the issue is to build a wall of defence and start questioning religion generally.

I lie, I've stolen, I smoke, I masturbate, I've been disobidient to my parent and still disagree with them on some issues, I engage in sex outside of marriage, Ive faulted people over their choices and that's judging, I have been selfish, and have question the existence of God. Still, Christians has come to say all this things do not matter, I can still be saved.

Now a free thinking person would argue that inspite of all I counted as my supposed sin, I don't need saving, as these things are normal for people to do due to the society we found ourselves in. That is it isn't our fault. That Every action, every sins has been a result of the world I found myself. So anyone whose come out to say I have to limit myself to certain things is trying to take advantage of my guilt, tge said guilt put into my heart throught their self serving sermon in the first place. But this notion is very wrong.

When you really search inward, as human, you would find out that all the answers are inside of you. I would refuse to quote any bible passage not make this discussion one sided. Let's think about it as a human. The actions that are considered sin in chritiandom, are they really self serving to the pastors or are they truly harmful to human physically and spiritually?

When you separate your mind from free thinking texts you've read online, and various anti religion manuscript, you'd be surprised to find out that the layouts of Christianity are to serve for good health and spiritual fitness not for self serving pastors.

Now as a christian just 4 things are required of you.

1. First is to know that God created you and be grateful for it. He's responsible for the life that you have. Your parent conceived you fine yes. God isnt disputing that infact he acknowledged in the holy book that your parent has to conceive you but He said He has known you even before you were conceived. You were not conceived out of nothing. You were being somewhere in a dimension before the act of sex summoned you down for a body and experience on earth. Your parent are responsible for your body not your spirit. The English meaning of conceive is "to form" The sperm isn't a life giving, it forms a body. It contains genetic information, biological features of both parent come together to form a new body that would house a new spirit coming to earth. God is the life giving spirit and He creates you and wants you to know him and acknowledged him just as you do your earthly parent this of course is for your own benefit cuz youre not gonna be on earth forever. Earth is just an experience.

2. Acknowledged Jesus, God's son as your lord and saviour. This is a particar one that gives most educated folks hard time to grasp. One can wrongly say that sometimes knowledge is a curse. Non educated people tend to believe almost everyday but educated ones would think think and connect dots until it make sense to them. One is such instances is the person of Jesus Christ. Questions like if God is my God why can't I access him directly and personally? Why do I need a middleman, How's Jesus God? Infact why Jesus? How is he more qualify than the messengers in the other religion? These questions I can sincerely say have been answered in the bible if you really search well.
One thing the christian believe for sure is you have to accept Jesus as your lord and saviour cus He died for you

3. Third thing is to stay away from sin. Honestly I can say that we generally don't have problem with 1 and 2. Our biggest problem and the reason for many rebellious stance is our unwillingness, sometimes failure to keep away from all that is recognizable as "Sin" in christiandom. Failure to not sin is always burdensome especially when you've made up your mind to remain sinless. The pang of guilt and doubt of salvation that comes with it could either make you more steadfast to God or completely send you off the rail. Only if they know that Jesus didnt die just for our sin, He systematically died for the guilt of it. Guilt is Satan's weapon against ignorant christian. Let's say you stole your neighbours toy, and ur mom paid for it, you need not feel ashame anymore if you truly repent and vow not to do that again. Satan being Satan will come in guise of your friends to mock u and call you names but who cares you've repented and your mom has given back the stolen toy. Failure to stop sinning when you try to is understandable but the unwillingness to keep away from sin is what drives many into atheist or other religion. Unwilling people do not question God or Jesus existence because they really want to know him, they do coz they r trying to avoid being responsible. Whether we like it or not though. When you live a life of sin, youre living a life of disservice

4. Fourth thing which is also important is a life of prayer and service. This is where communication and commitment comes in. Prayer and service goes hand in hand. One always help the other whenever either is dilatory. When faced with a problem so big that youre too weary to pray, your time of service to the lord will help you out. Services like reaching out to help the needy, discussing salvation with others, taking care of house of God and promoting the church services in terms of being an active worker in the body of Christ are all ways of services. This all shows commitment. Prayer also is a very important in communicating with God. I think the most issue we have with praying is the fact that we are not even sure if we r being heard. One could say "I'm not even seeing who I'm talking to, why cant God just reveal himself and this would be much easier, but sorry that can't happen. You cannot see God. You can only see Jesus which is God in human body which to my knowledge only appear in his true form very rarely to people if we are gonna be honest. But the wonderful thing is He communicates every seconds. Stop looking to see him face to face but practice to listen to Him. He talks. Infact His name is the " word" of God. God never stops soeaking. Speaking to different people at a time and to same people at different time. All you gotta do is be patient. Be patient and set your heart right.


So as a sinner myself looking to pray more and be more willingly to do the needful, I encourage us all to look within ourselves when bothered with question about God. Look back at all that has happened to you and ask yourself if it was all coincidence. Ask yourself if youre really a tiny speck of dust that should be meaningless. Cuz trust me it'll be if you don't quickly get under a banner of faith.

Religion is the cause of our worlds problem blah blah blah. This statement is true not because religion is the cause of our problems but because those who wants to cause us problem are using religion as a tool. Spirituality is personal. Jesus didn't stand at the synagogue and ask whoever wants to join his 12 disciple to raise their hands no he seek them out personally. But later ask them to converge in one accord that is where religion comes in. You have to be convinced personally before converging. The problem we have now is we converge before being convinced personally. That why its easy to use religion as a tool to disrupt the world. Religion, being in accord with one another was meant to save the world.

There you have it. I am a sinner, not proud of it, I will change I'm working in it but I will not be part of the few who would condemn Christianity based on what few bad eggs have done or just on mere unwillingness.

Know God and thank him for your existence, accept Jesus who is God in flesh, stay away from sin, pray and commit. That is all you need.

Its not really hard to serve God

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well for me i am not a sinner. i only live by a single rule, dont deliberately hurt another man. aside that whatever, i do, i did because i am human

What some people mean a times is that even when you try your best others around you try to pull you down or take you for a fool and there are certain things you can't or may find difficult to forgive. That's the hard part