In Christ Alone

The doctrine of In Christ alone is an important thing in the faith of Christianity. Where can we find hope? In Christ alone! Where can we find salvation? In Christ alone! Where can we turn to in times of pain? Christ alone. The purpose of my blog, and this journey of writing these things and going through the scriptures, I am hoping I turn to Christ alone. I would consider myself as a Christian. In terms of sports, I would be considered as a de-facto free agent, in terms of, currently, I see myself as not an active member of any ‘team’, and currently looking for my next team, yet, I may be apart of the ‘Mormon’ church actively again. My faith is in Christ alone, and nothing and no one else. The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints, though the church teaches and testifies of Christ and really does focus on Christ Jesus, but with a focus on teachings of the prophets, it has caused some discomfort in my heart. 

When believing in Christ alone, things have fallen in line for me. When additional stuff is added upon, it caused confusion in my mind, even in the church I have been a part of for the past two and a-bit years. To be believing in Christ alone is important due to the importance of Christ is in salvation of humanity, and the importance of how we can become better. It is written that God became word and the word was with God, through the word, God made all things and not one thing was made in all of creation without the word, and the word is Christ (see John 1:1-4). When a Christian first believe in Him who has set us free, nothing else comes before it. You do not need to be of an certain age, gender or from a certain place of birth to become a Christian. You do not need to be of the left or right wings of politics, you don’t need to apart of the republicans to be Christian, nor do you need to be apart the democrats to be Christian. All you need to be is a believer of Christ to be a member of His church. The Church of which Christ has all authority and all the praise, and the saints of which follows Him, shall be the church I desire. 

You do not need to work before believing, besides that of repentance. Saying that you proclaiming sin has no power over you anymore and that you shall follow Christ alone. This is the Christianity of the bible, correct? For it is written "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!" (Mark 1:15) We do not need to baptised or confirmed to be saved, however, Christ does get baptised in Matthew 3 to set an example of how to declare his mission, and our mission is to share the good news just like how Christ shares the good news. When a Christian actively does works in causation of his genuine faith, it happens after he believed in Christ and repented from his sins. This is why many Christians from Jehovah’s witnesses to Mormons, to Catholics, to Evangelists, do things to bring people to Christ. This is common fact, however as a Christian, everything you do, needs to glorify Jesus, and you shouldn’t seen to be serving money, should not serve or promote Christianity and a political organisation, person or party. Sure, you can prefer a party, but if you cannot become a servant of a political party or politician, promoting only them, whilst also being a member of the Christian faith, which, when you become to believe in Christ, you are now on a world stage, saying, no matter what happens in this earth, whomsoever is the head of state of this or that nation, the only thing that matters is Christ Jesus. Only Christ should matter in our hearts and being more like Christ. Many people in my life, who are in the church, have tried to justify standing with someone politically, while he speaks against rights, and is an improper acts in politics and with people of the opposite gender of him, calling themselves for the people, while spreading various falsehoods. In Christianity, you should think of things like this, “Does this glorify Jesus or does this glorify man?” We need to do things for Christ and in Christ alone.

Brothers and sisters, we are all family in Christ alone. We are members of a world-wide faith, in Christ alone. We are to be called to serve in the name of Christ alone, and bring glory to Christ alone. When we come together to worship, we do this quite easily, imagine Christ alone being the centre of all people and is every Christian’s focus is to always worship Christ and help others focus upon Him, what would this world look like? It would beautiful, and holy. This is the most important thing to any Christian, it is Jesus, and not politicians, or crystals, nor cards, nor anything else, but bringing people unto Christ, being Christ-like, treating others like Christ would, and helping them in all things. This is the essence of being a Christian. I am overtly proud of Christ and my belief in him, and it is the most important thing in my life, and the so-called Christians in my life have not been following the ways of Christ, and have tried to drag me down into their level, yet they testify of Christ on Sundays. They say that they are believers of Christ, yet attack with their words and have cared not, and are not faithful unless they are around their leaders of the churches and church events. I am looking, in terms of this, is a community of Christians where they are actually Christ like. 

I have lost the feeling of community expected from a Christian community, however, there is very little community in the church I have been apart of. Either because of the year that has been, or it was all a rouse, just to get me in, yet I have been forgotten, until I have called out people for changing how I have been treated by them. It is funny that since my last posting on my blog, a few people have tried to invite me out more to church-based events and share scriptures with me from the Latter-day saints cannon. Which I have asked for when I wrote ‘There is no point in trying to force me into believing what you believe, Pentecostal, evangelical, Baptist, catholic, mormon or otherwise. This is my story of how I am coping with this time in my life, and where I do end up, will be up to God the Father.’, meaning that I do not need your convincing to stay in the church or leave, just let me do what I need to do. For those in my life in the LDS church, please just respect that.

With love, Dean