Amazing power of the simple gospel

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End of Human Pride

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Instant Success Attracts Imminent Fall

In developing nations, the prosperity gospel is attracting the preachers like a magnet.  I can only speak from the Indian sub-continental experience (though other parts of the world are not immune to it) where it has become a fashion for the upcoming and young preachers to preach instant success in such a way as if they want to outdo the “American Dream”.  Their sermons and social media interactions are filled with quotations and references from the Mega-Church Moguls and the Televangelist Tycoons; for them, the biblical texts become useful only for the footnotes.  Becoming rich and famous at any cost appears to be their ultimate goal in life; ministry provides them a noble mantle to hide their beguiling image.

रातोपाटी सेतोपाटी

रातोपाटी देखी सेतोपाटी र अन्य अनलाईन वा छापिएका पत्रिकाहरूमा बेलाबखत नेपालमा आर्थिक प्रलोभन देखाएर इसाईहरूले गैर-इसाईलाई धर्म परिवर्तन गराएको आरोपपुर्ण लेखहरू प्रकाशित हुन्छन्।  हुनत ती लेखहरू आफैमा (लेखकहरू) इसाई धर्मप्रति  अज्ञानता र पुर्वाग्रहका चरम उदाहरण हुन्।  तरैपनि यस्ता लेखहरू प्रकाशित हुनुमा इसाई नेत्रित्वको पनि भुमिका छ; पैसाको कारण कसैले पनि नेपालमा इसाई धर्म अपनाएको नहुनसक्छ तर निर्दोष र इमान्दार नेपालीले येशू ख्रीष्टलाई आफ्नो जीवनको मुक्तिदाता र गुरू बनाउने निर्णयको फाईदा कतिपय धुर्त इसाई अगुवाहरूले उठाएका छन्।

त्यसकारण, सम्पुर्ण नेपाली इसाईहरूलाई यस्ता लेखकहरूको अज्ञानता र पुर्वाग्रहको शिकार बनाउनुको सट्टा यी भ्रष्ट इसाई अगुवाहरूको गतिविधिहरूलाई प्रकाशमा ल्याउनसके असल पत्रकारीता र नेपाली इसाईत्वको विकास हुनेथियो।

नेपाली ख्रीष्टियन मिडियाका कम्जोर पक्षहरू

जसरी नेपालमा पास्टरको इज्जत छैन त्यसरीनै नेपाली सञ्चारकर्मिको वा माध्यमहरुको इज्जतमा पनि ह्रास आइसकेको जस्तो देखिन्छ। नेपालमा पास्टरहरुको इज्जत नहुनुमा अधिकांस पास्टरहरूकै दोष हो भन्दा खासै फरक नपर्ला।  परमेश्‍वरको बोलाहट र आफ्नो दक्षताको ख्यालै नगरी जसकसैले पनि रातारात नयाँ मण्डलीको सुरुवात गरेर मण्डलीलाई जिविकोपार्जनको माध्यम बनाउने प्रविर्तिले गर्दा नेपालमा पास्टरीय मर्यदामा दागलागे जस्तै नेपाली ख्रीष्टियन सञ्चार माध्यम र पत्रकार मित्रहरूको अवस्थापनि त्यस्तै देखिन्छ। 

बाँकि पढ्नको लागि क्लिक गर्नुहोस

Your Mind is a Vital Part of Your Spiritual Makeup

Albert Einstein said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”.  Indeed, knowledge can be had, but it is the imagination that brings new ideas into existence resulting in new inventions.  Even Christian spiritual maturity depends on the transformation of the mind; failure to transform one’s mind means living as a carnal Christian.  For Paul, the mind set on the things of the flesh is death but the mind set on the things of the Spirit is life and joy (Romans 8). 

Learning from others' mistakes

Whether You Are A Thinking Person!

As a normal human being with a thinking brain inside your head, you may have ideological, philosophical, theological, methodological, and so on and so forth differences of opinions; you can attack and criticize the discourse you don't agree with.  Occasionally, you may be tempted to address the person behind the discourse.  But if the person behind the discourse becomes your primary target of attack and criticism, you have failed to demonstrate that you have the thinking capacity.

Are we afraid of positive thinking?

Whether we like it or not, there is tremendous power in positive mental attitude.  If we honestly examine the successful people in the world, religious or nonreligious, they all share one common trait; the positive mental attitude.  The forerunners of modern day positive mental attitude; people like Napoleon Hill, Vincent Peale, William Clement Stone, Robert Schuller and the likes have unequivocally attributed their inspiration for PMA to the teachings found in the Bible.  An American psychologist and philosopher of 19/20^th century, William James, said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes”.[1]  True to his discovery, the uncountable volumes of self-help books have come into existence from writers, philosophers and thinkers who recognized the power of human brain.  Equal numbers of people have helped themselves by applying the principles found in these books and teachings.

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