MY LETTER TO TURKANA CHURCH: GLOBAL CHURCH.

       “If my people who are called by my name become humble and pray, and look for me, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven. I will forgive their sin and heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7: 14 )

           Greetings brethren in the mighty and glorious name of Jesus Christ. May the Love and the favour of our Lord Jesus be with us all. Amen. I glorify the Lord for the Amazing Grace and the immeasurable love; LOVE that made the world to quake at Calvary. This is my letter to you; THE CHURCH.

       Perhaps you may want to know and understand what the Church is; is  an English word for Greek ekklesia. The ‘ekklesia’  is a group of people who have placed their faith in Jesus, who have been transformed by the Spirit of God becoming new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17). They are brought back into fellowship with God through Christ’s death on the cross (2 Corinthians 5:18-21) and are now saved (1 John 5:13), not by their own effort and works (Ephesians 2:8-9) but saved unto works (Ephesians 2:10, James 2:14-26).

            These people are what the Bible calls ‘the body of Christ’ (1 Corinthians 12:13; 27) with the Lord Jesus Christ as the head (Ephesians 1:22-23). This ekklesia, this church, this group of ‘called out’ ones is both universal and local.

            The ekklesia is universal because it is made up of all those throughout the world who are born again and have a personal relationship with Christ. The ekklesia is also local in that believers gather together to worship in their own localities, as shown by the Apostle Paul who greets the ‘churches’ in Galatia (Galatians 1:1-2). The Biblical ekklesia then is not a building, but a people.  These people, having had their sin forgiven by placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, join together to worship God, and to encourage and exhort one another as they seek to live out the gospel.

           To commence with, the altar of the church has immense and humongous power than any other power in the world because its power is from the sovereign God. This power is transitioned to Church leaders during ordination and is meant to bless the land and seek for solutions whenever misfortune strikes the land. When the altar of the Lord is defiled, disaster and misfortune strikes the land. You will agree with me that the Church is the solution/has all the answers the world is seeking today.

          I am compelled to write this epistle to you because the Church has failed its role as God's power on earth. The altar of the Lord has been defiled. Sexual immorality is practised at the altar of the church, homosexuality is a lifestyle in today's Church, Money gospel is the most vibrant gospel today not the gospel of the Cross, resurrection and victory of Jesus Christ and the fear of the Lord has found its way to the darkness. How will we be able to please God without the fear of the Lord?

           But the judgment of God is upon the Church as never before. If today's church does not reinvent herself and recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early Church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions and be dismissed as irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twenty first century.

         But perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too extricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world? Perhaps I must turn my faith to the inner spiritual Church, the Church within the Church, as a true ekklesia and the hope of Northern Kenya and the world. I should act in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. The Church may be small but the commitment of Holy Spirit in it can perform wonders and drive miraculous commitments. It should be the salt of the world, the true light of this dark world.

        We are all made in one image and likeness of our supreme God. Is God's power still in today's Church pulpit to answer this question? Disaster has struck the land and it's unfortunate that the world has no answers, I am writing to the Church because it's where my hope of redemption relies at all times.

       I am more than disappointed with today's Church because it has entangled herself with the world, it has infiltrated into politics yet I expect even the political leadership to be under the teachings of the Church, it should be consumed by the fear of the Lord, to prepare Gods children for eternity but the Church has chosen another Gospel, another different path, a path of prosperity, a path of idolatry, a path of sexual immorality at the altar, a path heading to hell only waiting a hake of time. Who cursed the Church of today?

      When I see banditry and cattle rustling, epidemics, draught and hunger hitting Turkana and eventually leading to death of fellow human beings at will, I ask myself if the Church still exist in the world? Could the NCCK still be existing or I am in slumber land? I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus, that there's in any other power greater than the power in the blood of Jesus that's why I am writing this letter to the Church, to seek together the power above all other powers. Rain does not come from GoK, County Governments, UN, Commonwealth or AU. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Everything we lack is in Jesus.

       I am writing to ask the Church to return back to God, to the covenant way of life, to demand answers from God for this catastrophe. I am tired of seeing those ugly images and episodes of hunger of the children of God dying in northern Kenya yet the Church has gone mute over this matter. If the Church is not part of the solution then it's part of the problem.

      It may seem mundane but the world needs the Church intervention now like never before, The Church has a role to walk and live by the spirit and not by the flesh for it to overcome the world, the Church of God that I know is an overcome because all its ways is driven by the holy spirit of God and the sovereign will of God.

        Paul who was Saul before his conversion on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians said, “after all of this is done, what remains is love, faith and Hope". If the Church is going to do all this in one Love; Love of God and their neighbours, in one faith of the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ until then I am hopeful that things will change in the near future for the better.

        If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg the Church to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than the purpose and the will of God in the Church, I beg God to forgive me. Kindly let's seek the face of God as we purpose to redeem northern Kenya from the biting pangs and jaws of hunger.

         I hope this epistle finds you strong in the faith of God and compels you to seek the face of God to unravel this conundrum and provide a solution to Northern Kenya. I believe that things will change for the better anytime soon if the Church will seek the miraculous God of Israel. May the Grace of the Lord and the love of God be with us now and forever more.
AMEN