THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

This blog will attempt to address misunderstandings common in the church today that I tend to hear from time to time whenever I fellowship with fellow believers in Christ. Please understand that I respect my fellow believers and by no means condemn them, I am doing my blog with a spirit of love and hope to raise a debate especially in my country Rwanda on whether the teachings we have been feeding on since childhood line up with scripture or maybe it could be that we have been reading the bible with a veil over our faces 2 cor 3:13-16.

For a long time I was of the view that our God had created man with a freewill that would enable him/her to choose his eternal destiny on whether he/she would burn in hell forever or live in heaven with God forever basing offcourse on his works; whether good deeds or right believing e.t.c. but little did I know that first off all the bible doesn't teach that believers would spend eternity in heaven but in the NEW JERUSALEM which will be right here in the NEW EARTH and that ONLY believers will have citizenship in the New Jerusalem, second is that the bible does NOT teach eternal fire where unbelievers will be roasted alive continually without dying when the book of revelation 20 verse 14 says that DEATH and HADES/HELL were cast into the lake of fire, so my question is,if unbelievers are to spend eternity in hell as most preachers teach then will hell itself be burning?

Matthew 18:11-14 teaches a radically different message than that available on our pulpits today, it speaks of a shepherd with a heart that is all about love and sacrifice for his sheep, in fact the scripture says that this shepherd loves his sheep so much that he willingly risks his life to go to the mountains where he will face many dangers to look for only one sheep which was lost and when he finds, he rejoices more over the one sheep that was lost and found than over the ninety-nine sheep that were never lost, that seems to contradict those who say that the folks who will burn in hell forever are LOST FOREVER, obviously Jesus was using the analogy of the shepherd to refer to Himself since He is the one Who came to seek that which was lost which is ALL of humanity, the reason why man was LOST was because he BELONGS to HE who created him who is our Lord, something cannot be lost unless it belongs! in this case, man was lost because had lost the way but the WAY came and found him and if man would end up in hell/hades then even there the WAY would find him which destroys the teaching that hell is eternal separation from God Psalms 139:7,8.

With this in mind then, should we not then sit down and examine our beliefs and teachings in light of scripture and probably start teaching on inclusion other than separation from the GodHead as so many of us tend to do whenever we are out soulwinning? I realise there are many good men and women out there who have the best of intentions whenever they preach separation other than inclusion and many of them identify with Freegrace or radicalgrace or hypergrace movement that is sweeping across some parts of the world now and this is not a bad development in my opinion, but still we all ought to conduct a serious biblestudy with the lens of the HolySpirit so that we can do soulwinning from the Source Who is LOVE.

God willing I will keep sharing my thoughts on this blog and any questions, comments and even corrections will be appreciated by me, may the Love of Christ strengthen you all. Amen.