Reflection ·

Is Christianity more about doing good or preaching Christ?

In the words of Henry David Thoreau “, I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.” My opinion may not be popular, but the truth is that events only take place in the minds of people who can tell the story.

No wonder a great writer Anton Chekhov emphasized that an emancipated thinker is he who is not afraid to write foolish things.

As a little boy growing up in a somewhat disciplined but complex Christian family unit, I was taught to do good to all men at all-time whenever I have the opportunity to do so. Yes, to all men with no exception; for whatsoever a man sowed, that is what he will reap.

Many years down the line, this idea remained as fresh as an early morning breeze in my sub-consciousness, and it will linger until proven wrong.

For the purpose of intellectual balance, I will not be making reference to any biblical verse, so that our teaming army of religious bigot will not descend on me in the pretext of protecting their dogmatism.

Because as we all know, almost all Bible quotation is now interpreted differently, depending on the socio-religious cum psychological frame of mind, or what the interpreter wants to achieve.

While I will not bother you with already known thousands of doctrine, that has over flooded the entire Christendom, all over the country, in the name of vision, prophecies and divine instruction; leading to the alarming rate of duplication of independent local Church worship centers, I will like to emphasize that “Good” is good and “bad” is bad and Christ is the giver of every Good and perfect gift, and He is not an author of confusion.

In case you are still wondering where this piece is leading you to, let me remind you that living right and doing good to all men is Godly and sacrosanct; and doing good has no religious interpretation because is a universal concept. More so when even the most dangerous person in society recognizes and appreciates a good gesture.

This presupposes that no Christian doctrine should deceive you with the “Gospel of Grace”, Church affiliation, corporate anointing, and the likes.

A Christian friend of mine was apparently confused and not happy with me when I told him that whether you belong to a particular Church or not, all who do good things profess Christ, but not all who profess Christ do good things. And at such preaching, Christ is not the same thing as being like Christ, which is the essence of Christianity.

His argument was that doing good, outside Christ is tantamount to nothing, while those not perfect in Christ will rely on God’s grace, which the Lord Himself said he will show to those whom he wishes to.

But can a man be doing good things to all men and still be regarded as an enemy to mankind? Whose spirit is manifesting the goodness in him or her, Christ or Satan? If you think the latter is the case, then I would say that I rather have a good enemy than have bad friends.

 

Though I did not dispute his case, I reminded him that a wise man had asked: Shall we continue in sin, so that grace will continue to protect us? God forbid! This brings us to the premise of my reasoning when I told him that those who do well outside Christ will get a better reward than hypocritical Christian worshipers, who hide under God’s Grace to exploit, deceive, intimidate, enslave and psychologically manipulate weak-minded individuals who ignorantly run to them for divine help.

 

Do I hear you say on what authority is he writing all this, well I don’t need any, to create a logical solution to an already demoralized moral instinct of a people that seemed to have been lost in the ocean of hypocrites who in a bid to outsmart rivals, confuse, rather than convince me that Christianity is not about doing good but preaching Christ•