WISDOM'S ARENA

  “It was of this that God called you, for Christ himself suffered for you and left you an example to follow, so that you will follow in His steps. He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come for his lips”  1 Peter 2:21-22(GNB) Let continue from we ended in our last edition under this Journey called " CHRIST THE STANDARD".  In one of his many confrontations with the religious leaders of his days, Jesus warned his followers not to follow the conduct of the religious leaders but only imitate their teaching, and I quote from Mathew 23:2 -3 (GNB) “ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees are the authorized interpreters of Moses law. So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don’t practice what they preach” .  What Jesus sought to communicate to his followers is quite clear - which is the word of God, which he represents. The word of God is the only standard by which one can measure his spiritual at

 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps" 1Peter 2:21(KJV)  I want to continue from where we ended in the last edition of our Journey called " CHRIST THE STANDARD". In our last edition, we looked at the unfortunate incident of the Pastor who shot and killed his wife in Florida, USA. Although there a lot of imposters who parading as men of God or prophet of God as stated by Paul according to  2  Timothy 3:12-14 (GNB)  “ ………… and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse,  deceiving and being deceived themselves ” The truth also is, there are equally many pastors who are not impostors but genuinely called by God; some of these men of God are usually very anointed and have a large following. The trouble with most of them is that because they have not taken time to go through the process of becoming ready for the work of ministry, their ministry and attitude give confl