What are the minimum requirements of being a Christian?

Paul converted some gentile and people from Jerusalem claiming to be with the church, in Jerusalem said they had to obey Moses. There was a meeting and this was the end result of the meeting, instructions on the minimum requirements of Christianity:

Act 15:28-29 KJV For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; (29) That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

This instruction was inspired and given to the newly converted gentiles. This was all they had to do after being baptized into Christ (Gal 3:27).

a. No idolatry: no eating anything offered to an idol (stay faithful to Jesus)

b. No drinking blood, or things strangled

c. No fornication and adultery is a type of fornication (stay faithful to your spouse)

Do you want pure religion?

Jas 1:26-27 KJV If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. (27) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Purest form of religion to take care of or to visit in times of affliction widows. Orphans and widows have none to help them except God upon who they call on for provision. So when you help one of these, then you have helped God feed and take of one that has Him as their only hope. To visit means to supply their needs in times of affliction. If one helped orphans and widows, then stayed faithful to Jesus or kept himself unspotted, then this man would be called pure religion.

Do you want to be instructed as if you were about to be persecuted or were questioning your faith?

Rom 12:1-3 KJV I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (3) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

The Roman Christians were told to present their bodies as a living sacrifice. They were about to be persecuted and some even burned at the stake, when the persecution began. This being their reasonable service: To stay faithful during a trial of death or any other trial, stay faithful to Jesus. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by renewing your mind. Do not think I am dying but think I will be in heaven! Change the way you think. Prove what is good acceptable and perfect will of God. Will this send me to heaven? Or to Hell? You have test things and try things in order to prove it true or false. There is only one way to beat the devil, not wanting what the world offers you, Jesus has got to be your only source.

Father, we pray Jesus would be our only desire and source, please meet our souls deepest needs and heal our souls that we may be forgiven and whole, in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

To the church leadership

To the church leadership,

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint, dill, and cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith these you ought to have done and not to leave the other undone, you blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” Matt 23:23-24

There are three things that Jesus told the religious leaders of His day that they should have done:

1. Judgment – denotes the process of investigation, the act of distinguishing and separating, as in passing judgment upon another person or thing, in this passage it means the standard of judgment as in Just Dealings.

2. Mercy – Is the outward manifestation of pity, it assumes need on the part of him who receives it and resources adequate to meet the part of who shows it.

3. Faith – In this verse means trustworthiness

Elders, deacons, ministers, and Christians this applies to us. The leadership of the church are often asked to help out the needy or to help others in sticky situations. With the rise of divorce in America the elders ought to be very busy working out the problems of their sheep. The same is true of family ministers and deacons that oversee similar works. People have problems and many times the leadership just does not get involved with the lives of its members or perhaps members never tell the leadership they have issues. Is that not the job of an elder? To be the father like figure to handle the squabbles of the children? When brethren have problems they call the elders. When my children have problems they call on me.

One of three things Jesus said was being neglected was just dealings or judgment. Do we try to profit from everything we do for other people? Are we trying to better ourselves at the expense of others? Are we investing and giving of our time and talents to help others?

Mercy was the second. When you run into someone in need, a brother or sister, do we take the care needed and be the hands and feet of God. Do we meet their needs or do we say a prayer and move on hoping someone else will take care of them. John said how can you love God who you have not seen when you show no love to the brother that you see.

Faith was the third- trustworthy. Are you trust worthy? Are you faithful in the little things? If someone shares their struggle with sin, do you share that with others? Or do you pray and encourage alongside of them?

I have heard ministers, elders, etc say that they are unqualified to help counsel people and their problems and refer others to professional counselors. Are we becoming so void of truth that we have to turn to the wisdom of this world and its principles instead of what would Jesus do? Is God's word not living and the words of psychology professors and founders not dead? Why would we turn someone away from God’s instruction to man’s instruction?

Father help free us from the world and its wisdom and principles and turn to your living word that is never sown void, In Jesus name may it be so

End the slavery of transgender people...

Transgender people are slaves to the doctors…

I feel sorry, for each of the trans people than have regretted their irreversible decision and had their gentiles mutilated at the expense of greedy doctors. The doctors know no male human can produce a human egg. The doctors know no human female can produce a human sperm. Yet, they fulfilling the role of Frankenstein, and the Slave master, subject people to lifestyle of slavery. Slavery to you need my prescription, you need my scalpel, you need me the rest of your life and their will be nothing you can do about it; after you decide to allow them to mutilate your body. The doctors know they are not changing genders, for their profession does not deny science and natural laws. They are willing to profit off all those unsure of their gender, and some want to change others with an irreversible surgery. This mutilates the natural order of human growth and transition from child to adult. No child should be given the ability to choose an irreversible decision, resulting in a life dependent on doctors’ orders, drugs, and hormones all artificial, and make doctors wealthy. It will never be natural; you will always be artificially deceiving yourself and paying doctors to enslave yourself and others.

Those that have bought the lie, you are not your birth gender, are essentially the monster Frankenstein, created by man with a knife and wicked imagination, who profits off your emotional instability. Many of you claim it is hard, then press that hardship on others? If you want to play Frankenstein and hack up a human body then fine, but do not teach those lies to our children, especially mine. You are teaching slavery and misery of an artificial life supplied by doctor lying to you, who wants your money and not tell you the truth and who do not to practice the truth, but cater to your emotional fantasy. If I did to a dog, what you guys do to a human, then it would be cruelty. I pray to Jesus of Nazareth, I was as confused as anyone of you, He confirmed the truth and I am a straight male. Who years later am now married and living a life grounded in truth and a Spirit of freedom. Nothing will satisfy your soul, like Jesus of Nazareth. Have you asked the Author of Salvation to write you a plan of redemption, reconciliation, and salvation? Yes or No? Jesus of Nazareth died so you would never have to choose the wrong thing, made a way for your wrongs to be forgiven. Jesus says, whoever hungers and thirsts after righteousness will be filled. Do you want to fulfil your plan and purpose and be right? Yes or No. Will you ask Jesus of Nazareth what is right, so you can be right with your Creator and fellow mankind? Yes or No? Please respond with any comments….

Pray with me?

Creator of all created things, and I ask you would fill our hunger and desire to be right and fulfill our plan and purpose, please restore all the damage done by these doctors and grant them sound reasoning, that they profit no further from human cruelty based on emotional people, please forgive their ignorance and show mercy to those living lies enforced by those in authority, please meet our soul’s deepest needs of truth, mercy, love, and forgiveness and we forgive all others, including ourselves. Knowing you teach to forgive or we cannot be forgiven, In Jesus of Nazareth’s name may it be so.