"Hey, I didn't know you're a church person." Those eight words. You've either heard them or lived afraid of hearing them." Because you're either living in a way that your public life can't really trace your christian faith or you don't want to be perceived as a church person. Maybe it was a coworker who stumbled onto your Sunday morning Instagram or tiktok story — the video where your hands were raised and scripture caption underneath – while sitting right next to you at an unholy get-together the night before. Maybe it was a friend from your neighbourhood who randomly ran into your pastor and came back to you with that slow, knowing half-smile that told you they were connecting dots you'd hoped would never connect. Or maybe nobody has confronted you about their suspicion yet. . But you know. You know exactly which parts of your life are not allowed to touch each other, and you spend more energy making s...
"Forget it! I can do anything at all for money". "Being nice and considerate will not put food on my table and take care of my needs". "You need to be wise (that is, to be crafty 😒) to make it in this life." "Too much "holy holy" will keep you poor". Blah blah blah! You see people with these mindset?.... They don't last. Let me first counter two dominant mindsets evident in the above statements. First, being nice is never all there is to a good character. Niceness is never enough to afford you a good reputation. Secondly, reputation is an invisible currency whether you believe it or not. Stay with me... By obvious observation, this is a very impatient generation. The world is rapidly evolving and literally making life faster and easier for us. There's fast food, fast shopping, fast delivery, even fast dopamine hits from social media. Advancement of technology has made everything easy from the comfort of our homes. Let'...