Thursday, November 10, 2016

Christianity divided by churches

              Do you believe in Christ? Are you involved in religious institutions like churches? It is obvious that Christianity itself focuses on one omnipresent God but churches seems to put something in between people and God.

              Of all the years that I have spent worshiping God, I have experienced real rejuvenation in my life. I'm a Born-again Christian and for what I have been doing all throughout this years are praising and trusting in Him. I have seen good people inside the church and I have even met some friends. Being a college student, it is expected from me to meet new friends, and in fact, I have built a lot. The good thing behind this is, they were all believers and we have found our way to get together and build a stronger foundation of our friendship through attending a Christian church, different from where I used to attend into. All of the fun we had during those days are priceless and comparable to nothing. We even established more and more friends from other campuses leaving us overwhelmed. We took lots of group photos and uploaded it to Facebook. Aware of being seen by my other friends, friends from other church, I didn't expected their reaction regarding this.

              Praising and worshiping God is what is important once we got inside the church. The presence of Him inside us is truly indescribable. Getting along with other believers inside is a plus. T
his is a heavy topic to talk to but I just really need to get this out of myself. Church is not a place wherein you go to just socialize and pretend that you enjoy doing other 'essential' stuffs and whatsoever. It is not a valid reason that I go to other church and met new friends for them to ignore me afterwards. I have been ignored for that kind of invalid reason. I have been ignored for the fact that I joined to other church, a CHRISTIAN church, the same kind of church.

              Being an open- minded person really helped a lot dealing with this kind of situation. There might be an instance that they were just jealous because I have spent fun times with other people. What could possibly the reason? The socials that happening inside the church. I care if they ignore me, I care a lot. So I made my way to reconcile this by spending a time with them. That is just the reason, I didn't spent time with them, the time put distance between us, that's it. Sometimes we just need to talk and be honest to get things back to the original. It is not the church that separates people and God, it's the devil that makes its way into our minds, destroying it, contaminating it. Churches may give division, but it is an institution that gathers people to worship God, to establish a strong bond and relationship with everyone; It even teach us to love everyone. Churches may differ the ways of praising God, but the important thing there is, we praise God, together.