Unlimited: Indoctrinated or Gospelised?
Oct 22, 2024 1717
Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners (Matthew 9:13).
During approximately 100 days between April 7 and mid-July 1994, it is estimated that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed, up to 70% of the Tutsi and 20% of Rwanda’s total population. This was the genocidal mass slaughter of the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutu, by members of the Hutu majority—many of them Christians.
Yes, the horrific reality is that those who rose up to barbarously hack their neighbours to death were Christians of all persuasions. The churches in Rwanda before the genocide tended strongly towards fundamentalism and legalism, and they still do today. Has nothing been learnt? How can this be? Because Christians have too often spent their energies indoctrinating people, rather than “gospelising” them.
Have you been truly gospelised?
In terms of priorities, God does not call us to be rooted and grounded in knowledge and standards, or to understand all doctrine or prophecy. God calls us, as our first duty, to be rooted and grounded in love, through the indwelling of Christ in our hearts (Ephesians 3:17–19). Religion based on any other foundation incurs the words of Christ in Matthew 25: 45-46.
What about you? Have you been truly gospelised? Or have you merely been indoctrinated? – Eliezer Gonzalez
Reflection: Think carefully about the questions at the end of this devotional. Make it a point to study and understand what the Gospel is. How will you know if you have been “gospelised”? Because you will become kinder, gentler, forgiving, and more full of grace in all your dealings with others.
smorter giremal
Oct 30, 2024
The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I actually thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could fix if you werent too busy looking for attention.
smorter giremal
Oct 29, 2024
Howdy! I'm at work surfing around your blog from my new apple iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward to all your posts! Carry on the fantastic work!
Arron
Oct 22, 2024
What a blessing. wow.
Frank Paulsen
Oct 22, 2024
I have been struggling with anger, resentment, hatred, unforgiveness, pride..for a long time. And it has been my prayer asking our Almighty Father to help me deal with these sins and others, in my life. I thank Almighty Father God for this powerful message and important reminder for me to love and NOT hate, to be kind and NOT cruel, to bless and NOT curse, to forgive and NOT hold grudges...And I also thank God for GNU. May our Almighty Father God, help you and shower His blessings upon you all while you continue to reach out to people like me.
lanny george ross
Oct 22, 2024
Hello Eli; I'm 83 and was raised in the SDA church. by a loving mother and no church going father. After the Navy I went to Walla Walla to study theology. After the first year dropped out to earn dollars and was back and forth in college for the next 10 years. I end my effort at PUC. The last class I signed up for was Danial by Des but was not able to actually go beyond the first meet and greet day. Buy 1984 I gave up on church. I felt the SDA church had become like the jews of Christ time, better that a few innocent die than expose the old cloth to truth and risk demise of power. I was blessed a few years ago stumble onto GNU and had found a few of Des's books online. The peace and assurance of the gospel and the law is truly refreshing to this old soul. I hope to chat with you someday in another world made new. God bless
Sandi Hnilica
Nov 23, 2021
I was indoctrinated, from the age of 19, for 38 years. My "family" lied to me! Fell in with Dale Ratzlaff, but returned $200+ in books as I read that the Sabbath was no longer binding. I wandered in the desert for all that time. Attended Baptist mega-church, then Celebrate Recovery church. But was led to an infidel I was warned against in 1980, Des Ford. I'm now 74 & in poor shape, but am praying that God will use me to tell others of the Blessed Assurance! Thank God for him, & for you, Eli!
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Nov 8, 2024
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