{"id":64014,"date":"2023-05-16T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64014"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:07:56","slug":"the-me-myself-and-i-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64014","title":{"rendered":"The me, myself and I gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoHeader\"><b><span class=\"elementToProof\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Distressing Devotionals on a Typical Day\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>The Preacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoHeader\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I receive over 15 daily devotionals on my phone, from different generally unsolicited sources.\u00a0 It is not possible to read all of them, in addition to one\u2019s own devotion for the day, so they usually get deleted, to make space on the phone.\u00a0 One morning, I had a nudge to check up the topics for the day in each of those daily devotionals as received at the time.\u00a0 This is what I found:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Divine Uplifting and Connections\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Mission Accomplished \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">You will Enjoy Manifold Grace\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">God will Shield You\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">God can Promote You\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Supernatural Peace\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Grace for More\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Useless Aprons\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">God\u2019s Options or Ours?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Obey and be Blessed\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was <span lang=\"EN-GB\">worried.\u00a0 Almost all the topics were about ourselves: our material and earthly wellbeing &#8211; our \u2018upliftment,\u2019 our peace, our protection, and \u2018grace\u2019 for much more greed.\u00a0 \u00a0I, Me, Mine. \u00a0There was little of the interest of the Father. \u00a0Where was repentance, salvation, missions, holiness, revival, genuine Kingdom sacrifice, heaven and hell? \u00a0It was, for me, an uncomfortable testimony of what the Church in this generation has made of God and the gospel: a vending and gaming machine, a talisman and a medium, a drive-by instant bless-me hub.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I am afraid that if it were possible to do the same survey of all the sermons on a typical Sunday, the findings would be the same.\u00a0 Alas the kind of pitiful Christians produced by our unwholesome brand of the everlasting gospel!\u00a0 No surprise that the plenty churches that line our many streets have generally been unable to change the streets!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Is God important only for what we can get from Him, what He can do for us, what we can use Him for?\u00a0 Looking at those devotional breakfast recipes, I was troubled at the shallowness of our present Christianity; our carnality masked as spirituality; our greed masked as prosperity and faith, and the empty vessels we have produced, making the louder noise.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We surely need a Revival. \u00a0O Lord, may the showers begin to fall again. Amen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e <em><strong>The Preacher can be reached on +2348035115164; +2348035115025; or at info@thepreacher.info\u00a0; https:\/\/thepreacherdiary.com\/; https:\/\/facebook.com\/www.thepreacher.info\/<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distressing Devotionals on a Typical Day\u00a0 By The Preacher I receive over 15 daily devotionals on my phone, from different generally unsolicited sources.\u00a0 It is not possible to read all of them, in addition to one\u2019s own devotion for the day, so they usually get deleted, to make space on the phone.\u00a0 One morning, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}