Isn't Christ Enough?

Happy New Year friends! 

To be honest I really struggled to title this post so I decided to write the content then name it after. I am going to get right into the meat and potatoes of this post! :) 

One thing I am very passionate about is encouraging Unity in Christ. My specific passion is seeing people from various denominations coming under one roof because Christ is Enough! Because His love compels us to just, simply just, Love! 

These last few days I have been a bit grieved about a situation that I have been following for about 9 years.  There is an anointed worship singer from my country whom I have admired and thanked God for her ever since I first heard her music. She was in one denomination that accused her of being different when what she did was just truly worship the Lord as she saw fit! She fought to remain in the church despite the persecution that came from her people, her fellow believers. Until this one day, she officially moved out of that denomination. Once out of the denomination, she was/is continuously persecuted by the same people. They claim she has forsaken the same Lord she sang for since the beginning. What changed in her was only her cloth and the style of music but nothing of her love and devotion for the lord! 

This is a very real and current story I share with you. I am so grieved not because she HAD TO move to a different denomination but in the lack of understanding that Christ is one and the same! My heart breaks for people who box God in their churches, denominations, and/or comfortable zones! It really pains me to see that Unity in Christ means very little to a lot of people. It is sad that people have devalued the Capital C 'Church'. When Christ comes back for His Bride, He will not be coming for a denomination - He will be coming for His Church! 

In John 4, Christ Himself corrects the Samaritan woman by saying Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father." John 4:21 What does this mean my friends? I believe this means God is looking for worshipers, people who are truly seeking His face! Dare we say from any denomination? That is exactly what it means!

I have written about denominational difference before, here is a LINK for it. But in this post, I want to remind us all of the Greatest Commission: "18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” 

In Short, there are 151,600 people that die each day (Source: World Birth and Death Rates, 2011). How much of our limited time on earth are we willing to spend bickering amongst ourselves? How much time will we choose to spend doing what Christ commissioned all of us to do? Isn't Christ Enough? Did He not die to reconcile us to the father and give us life in abundance? Or did He die to elevate one denomination over the other?

I request that we start to look at the person of Christ and ask the father to help us be more like Him every day. I ask that we deal with the planks in our own eyes before picking a straw from our neighbour's. Most importantly, I urge you to value the Unity we have in Christ! That we learn to glorify Christ more than our denominations! 

#SpreadtheWord #UnityInChrist #HeisEnough 

Stay Blessed<3