Mind, Spiritual Realities, and Faith in Christ

In 1990, just prior to commencement of College, I received Jesus as Lord and Savior. Naturally, I became active in context of a congregation of fellow students who fellowshipped together on campus.

In context of that specific campus fellowship, and it’s network of fellowships on campuses across the country, I went on to hold several leadership positions. All of those leadership opportunities were thrust on me. Even then, my faith in Jesus Christ was too precious to me to be considered a platform for politics of positioning for offices in Church.

Even as a young novice Christian, I had a strong sense that Church was too sacred a context for shameless politicking for office.

The sad reality of course, is the fact that politicking for office, which transpires in context of Church is, perhaps, pursued about as shamelessly as in every other context of life. But then, that is not Jesus being deficient, that is people seeing the Church in terms of dollars and cents, as opposed to in terms of love and worthiness.

Church being made up of all kinds of people, in presence of leadership whose primary motivation is not Love for Christ, Church…