Last Sunday I sat through a sermon where the preacher was giving an example of how conflicts occur and she was talking about how young people get into "agreements" and this creates an atmosphere for conflict. mmmh....didn't get what she meant? me neither so instead of her calling things as they are and call it shacking up or come-we-stay arrangements she decided to just call it arrangements and failed to hit the nail on the head and drive the point home.
Then there was a time a certain church in Nairobi made headlines because of the way they decided to advertise their next sermon on sex and relationships. Every talk show for two weeks was talking about how they "failed" just because they were bold enough to say it as it is. I sit every day in loud 'matatus' where half..okay more than half of the music played is talking about sex....not just mentioning it..but in detail..such detail that makes you create a video in your head to go with the song (I need to stop procrastinating taking those driving lessons). So why is it that the world is so bold to talk about sex and no one complains but when the church is bold enough to even hint they are talking about sex..they get bashed?
I once wrote an article on sex and purposely sent it to the church editors to publish it in the monthly booklet.....they outright told me that the church does not post "such" articles....so if am not writing about how God is merciful, baptism, the holy trinity...etc my articles will not appear in the booklet.
I have a colleague who is always making fun of how church girls and boys...pretend to go on church retreats then a few months later the girl drops out of choir or praise and worship because she is pregnant....my first reaction to his statement was to get defensive but after thinking it through ...he was right....and why does this happen? Because the church is too "shy" to talk about sex.
The church has become too busy coming up with sermons that would bring in more people...certainly no one wants a small church ....so if the church is referred to as MEGA...the better...at what cost?
John 6:53: Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
I can picture Jesus saying this to the crowd and probably the disciples going like..."There is that flesh eating sermon, now they will think we are a bunch of weirdos" another one going like.."why can't He just talk about grace and other nice things..He has to go all weird on us, we will certainly lose followers". But Jesus was focused on saving lives by saying the truth as it is, so you would either receive or walk away but as long as He had done His Father's will.
Mathew 5:13: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
The church has lost its saltiness in such a way now it is conforming to the standards of this world......The church has become so afraid to call sexual sin as it is....fornication, homosexuality, adultery.....in the name of growing the church...to build bigger structures....to be known as a MEGA church.
I particularly touch on sex because I have attended youth services and teens' services whereby the pastors touch around this topic but never really talking about it.
So what happens when the world is louder than the church when talking about sex? We start having conversations on giving teenagers contraceptives......we start having kids as young as 13 going to clinics to abort....we start having teenager's having multiple partners because no one ever sat them down and told them why God says sex is sacred.....why God says that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit....no one told them sex is just not physical its beyond that and you form soul ties with people...that saving yourself for marriage is not lame but its the best thing you can give your spouse....
.Instead the church has left it to the world to tell them..that sex is an art that is to be perfected by having many partners....that you should "test drive" the person you are dating before you marry them.....that being a virgin is something to be ashamed of....
Its time for the church to be bold.....because we will be held accountable for the Gospel that Christ left for us to preach...when He comes back having a MEGA church will not matter what will matter is how many souls we would have saved by being bold in sharing the gospel as it is...no sugar coating...but being real.
