Garry Whitfield

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@churchtalkative Does going to church make you a Christian ? You end up going to church when the penny drops on the reality of the glory of the cross. The glory of the cross is not that God requires atonement for sin. It’s that he provides atonement for sin. The result: you want to go to church

Are you a true Christian if you don’t go to Church?

4. Read With Expectation Hebrews 11:6 KJV - For he that cometh to God must believe that he is. Many people read the Bible expecting nothing and receive very little. Approach God's Word believing that He wants to speak, teach, correct, encourage, and transform you. Expectation creates spiritual attentiveness. The same God who spoke through Scripture thousands of years ago still uses His Word to speak today. Watchman, every time you open your Bible, you are giving God an opportunity to address your life.

@RealShahriqKhan Amen

When I was Muslim, I knew the story of Jonah. We call him Yunus. We have a surah named after him too. There’s similarities: Swallowed by the fish. Three days in the dark. Spit back out alive to go preach. We agree on all of it. But you know what I never connected? Jesus pointed at that exact story and made it about Himself. “As Jonah was three days in the belly of the fish, so the Son of Man will be three days in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40. Jonah went down into the deep so a city full of His enemies could be saved. Three days swallowed by death. Then back to the land of the living. The difference? Jonah ran FROM the mission and got swallowed as discipline. Jesus ran TO the mission and got swallowed on purpose. Jonah went into the dark kicking and screaming. Jesus walked in with His eyes open, for you and I both. Islam gave me a random fish. Jesus gave me the meaning of the fish. 🐋

There’s a reason the Book of Romans is my favorite book in the Bible. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 11:26: “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” Israel’s story is not finished. The nation that the world wants to erase, God has declared will be redeemed. You cannot have a redemption without a remnant. You cannot have a return without a people to return to. The very existence of Israel today, the most resilient nation is God keeping His word. Zechariah 14 is unmistakable. “His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies to the east of Jerusalem.” Not a metaphor. The same Mount of Olives where He ascended in Acts 1, where the angels declared He would return in the same manner. He is coming back, and He is coming back there. Jerusalem is not incidental to eschatology. Jerusalem is the epicenter of it. The King of Kings will reign from that city. The nations will come up to worship in that place. This is why the enemy has always wanted to erase it, why the world’s hatred for one small nation is so disproportionate to her size because Hell understands what is at stake even when the Church forgets. Israel, like every nation, is made up of broken human beings in need of a Savior. But the promises of God do not rest on Israel’s perfection. They rest on God’s character. “The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable,” Paul wrote in Romans 11:29. If God could break His covenant with Israel, He could break His covenant with me. But He cannot. He will not. And so Israel endures as a sign, as a witness, as a living testimony that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the same yesterday, today, and forever and His word will stand forever. And that gives me great peace. No matter what’s happening in the world. So when I defend Israel, I don’t defend every action of every government. They have a left too, one I disagree with daily. I defend Israel because I defend the Word of God. And I defend the Word of God because Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and His Word is always true. Every single word. Not just the one’s people want to focus on. I don’t know what happens in the end. I don’t know who is saved or why. And I don’t care. I know the same Jesus who died for my sins made promises to that nation and He will keep every last one of them.

This is the argument at the center of The Stories We Live By. Every narrative our culture runs on-identity, freedom, happiness, power, progress, science, justice-is pointing at something real. Something true. Something worth longing for. But does the story we live by really deliver what it promises? The short answer is that none of them can. Not because the longings are wrong. Because the stories are too small. Pre-order: buff.ly/ORb2moi . -Michael Keller

"Jesus never said, 'Worship Me.'" I used to say that as a Muslim.  Then I thought about it more. Your boss never says, "Bow to me," either. Yet everyone in the office knows exactly who has authority. Authority is recognized by how people respond to it, not just by the exact words used. That's why this argument never made sense to me once I actually read the Bible. After the resurrection, the disciples fell down and worshiped Jesus. He didn't stop them. In John 9, the man born blind said, "Lord, I believe," and worshiped Him. Jesus didn't correct him. In Revelation 5, all of heaven worships the Lamb. Not an angel, Not a prophet:  The Lamb. And if Jesus were merely a prophet, accepting worship would have been blasphemy. Instead, He received it. That's because Jesus never walked around with a slogan saying, "Worship Me." He did something far more powerful. He forgave sins and He claimed divine titles. He accepted worship and He rose from the dead. And the people closest to Him didn't just admire Him. They bowed. That's the point.

This never gets old … John MacArthur explains the greatest gospel verse in the Bible: 2 Corinthians 5:21 - “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

I did not meet Jesus in a church. And I definitely was not looking for Him. I was not saved by a pastor. I met Jesus while reading the Quran. And the wildest part was this: He was already there. Surah 3:45 calls Him the Messiah, honored in this world and the next. Surah 4:171 calls Him a word from Allah and a spirit from Him. Surah 3:49 says He gives life to the dead, heals the blind and the leper, and creates from clay. And I remember sitting there thinking: There is no way this is “just another prophet.” So I compared Him to Muhammad because I had to. One gives life.
 The other led wars. One is called sinless.
 The other prayed for forgiveness. One raises the dead.
 The other could not overcome death himself. And I started asking questions I was never supposed to ask: Why is Jesus the only one called the Messiah? Why is He the only one born of a virgin? Why is He the only one coming back to judge the world? Why does the Quran give Jesus divine titles but never fully explain them? That tension wrecked me intellectually. Because the same book telling me not to worship Jesus could not stop elevating Him above every other prophet. And eventually I realized something: I did not leave Islam because I hated it. I left because I followed the clues honestly. And every single one of them led me to Jesus Christ.

@RealShahriqKhan And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. The glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of Grace and Truth. Jesus, God with us.

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians: “If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?” And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument. But later I realized something: That question was not exposing Christianity. It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be. Because the real question is not: “Why would God become weak?” The real question is: “What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?” Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable. But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us. And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me. It became proof of love. If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us. If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry. If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance. He entered it Himself. Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh. Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like. And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves. That changed everything for me. Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity. Jesus became the sacrifice Himself. And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. The glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of Grace and Truth. Jesus, God with us.

@TevinMacharia Be still and know that He sees you. You are a beloved son of the Most High.

Today I feel overwhelmed,tired , and exhausted. I do water into people,but who waters into me when I am being quenched Whisper a prayer for me and a word of encouragement.

@TevinMacharia The Father raises you up, it’s supernatural adoption and you are not left on your own and you cannot be plucked from His hand.

It’s not done by the human will alone but by the Spirit. Pursued, Called, Redeemed, Adopted to Sonship, since you are Sons God sends the Spirit of His Son by which you cry ABBA Father, so ti are no longer a slave but a Son and an heir! Not by human decision or Husbands will! It’s not by human will alone

“When you receive Jesus Christ, you are not joining a religion. You are dying to an old life. The Bible says: ‘If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away…’ Old things means OLD THINGS. If you used to be a thief, that old man must die. If you used to live in sexual immorality, that old man must die. If you used to be bound by pornography, drunkenness, lust, perversion, hatred, witchcraft, deception, that old man must die. You cannot encounter Christ and remain comfortable in sin. This generation wants a gospel that comforts the flesh while still claiming salvation. But the Gospel of Christ crucifies the flesh. ‘And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.’ — Bible Being born again is not changing church attendance. It is receiving a new nature. The sinful nature must lose dominion. The nature of Christ must now be seen in you. You cannot say: ‘I am born again but this is just who I am.’ NO. Your identity is no longer in sin. Your identity is now in Christ. The cross was not given so you can normalize bondage. The cross was given so you can be FREE. ‘Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.’ — Bible Stop defending the old man God told you to crucify. Walk in the Spirit. Live holy. Carry the nature of Christ.”

One of the best Charlie Kirk answers of all time.

Real faith begins when pride dies. In a culture obsessed with self worship, power, and image, admitting weakness and sin takes more courage than pretending to have everything together. The world tells people they are enough on their own. The Gospel says every person falls short and needs Jesus. That message offends people because it destroys the illusion of self righteousness. Success, influence, money, and popularity cannot save a soul. None of those things remove guilt, emptiness, or sin. People spend their whole lives building an image while ignoring the condition of their heart. Honesty about sin is becoming rare because modern culture rewards arrogance and punishes humility. But there is strength in admitting the truth instead of performing perfection for applause. People mock Christianity while chasing validation from a broken world that can never satisfy them. #CharlieKirk #JesusChrist #ChristianFaith #GloryOfGod #BiblicalTruth

When I was Muslim, man, this verse used to mess me up. Jesus on the cross saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As a Muslim, I used to think: how does God feel forsaken by God? That sounds like weakness. That sounds like a prophet in pain. But then I dug deeper. And I realized Jesus was not speaking randomly. He was quoting Psalm 22. That entire Psalm, written by King David centuries before Christ, is a prophecy about the crucifixion: “They pierce my hands and feet.” “They divide my garments among them.” “All who see me mock me.” In Jewish culture, quoting the first line of a Psalm pointed people to the entire passage. So Jesus was not crying out in confusion. He was declaring fulfillment. He was saying: “This is that.” And at the same time, He was carrying the full weight of sin, shame, abandonment, and suffering for humanity. Every moment humanity has cried out, “God, where are you?” Christ stepped into that pain Himself. That is not weakness. That is intentional. That is prophecy unfolding in real time. That is the King bleeding on purpose so humanity could be brought near to God. That is the Gospel.

@RealShahriqKhan Start with Abraham

I did not take the Old Testament seriously enough as a Christian. Because now I realize it is one of the biggest keys to evangelizing Muslims, especially the most devout ones. When I first came to faith, I treated the Old Testament like background material. Psalms, David, a few plagues, cool stories. I honestly treated it like the extended cut nobody asked for. But bro, it is the playbook. Every time I open Genesis, Exodus, or Numbers, it feels like God is directly confronting the claims of Islam through history itself. Because the Quran constantly recycles stories from the Torah, but changes the details in ways that completely collapse under scrutiny. Ishmael building the Kaaba is nowhere in the Torah. Moses in Exodus begs God not to send him to Pharaoh, but the Quran presents him differently. The Ark of the Covenant gets reassigned to Saul to confirm his kingship. Even Noah’s narrative gets altered. It’s like taking a story and running it through translation after translation until the original structure breaks apart. And you cannot borrow the prophets, rewrite their stories, and then claim the original revelation was corrupted when the manuscript evidence predates Islam by thousands of years. So yeah, publicly, I repent for sleeping on the Old Testament. Because it is not background material. It is the blueprint. And if you want to reach Muslims, don’t start with Paul. Start with Moses. Then watch what happens.

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God is not disappointed in you every time you fail. He already knew you would. He chose you anyway.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;thy will be done;on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation;but deliver us from evil.For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.Amen. God bless all 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧